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How Do You Prove that You Overwork in Turkey?

MuhasebeNews — Thu, 25 Oct 2018 06:00:27 +0000

If an employee exceeds weekly working hour which is 45 hours, he/she will be regarded that he/she is overworking.

If an employee who overworks has a conflict with his/her employer, that employee should prove that he/she has overworked.

In order an employee to prove overworking;
1- The documents that show his/her clock-in/clock-out,
2- Internal correspondences in the office,
are regarded as prove.

If overworking is proved with a witness, the witness(es) are supposed to work in the same office and at the same period of time with that employee.

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How Many Hours Can an Employee Overwork in Turkey?

MuhasebeNews — Tue, 13 Jun 2017 08:09:13 +0000

1- WHAT IS OVERWORK?
If an employee exceeds weekly working hour which is 45 hours as stated in Labor Law, he/she will be regarded that he/she is overworking.

Longtime working: if weekly working hours are determined as less than 45 hours in labor agreement and employee exceeds that determined weekly working hour, it will be considered as longtime working.

2- HOW MANY HOURS CAN AN EMPLOYEE OVERWORK?
In article 41 of the Labor Law numbered 4857, total amount of longtime working cannot be more than 270 hours in a year.

Source: Labor Law

Weekly Working Hours in Turkey

MuhasebeNews — Tue, 28 Mar 2017 08:46:32 +0000

In line with article 63 of the Labor Law No. 4857, weekly working hours should be 45 hours and unless otherwise consented upon, that duration should be divided equally into working days.

Accordingly, daily working hours should be 7,5 hours in a workplace where employees work 6 days in a week.

In SSI transactions, a month is regarded as 30 days. As a result of that, monthly working hours should be calculated as 30×7,5=225. If an employee works more than that period of time, it will be regarded as “overtime”.

An employee can have maximum 270 hours overwork in a year. Even if he/she consents to work more than that period, he/she will not be allowed to do that. While calculating the annual working period, if the period of overtime is less than half an hour, it will be regarded as half an hour. If the period of overtime is more than half an hour and less than one hour, it will be regarded as one hour.

In accordance with the Labor Law, it is forbidden for some employees to have overtime. Those are listed below:

Non-adult employees.
Employees whose health conditions are not suitable for overtime even if they accept it before/after the labor contract or collective agreements.
Pregnant, women after childbirth and nursing mothers.
Part-time workers.

Source: article 63 of the Labor Law 4857