04.02.2025 17:56
The Minister of Labor and Social Security, Vedat Işıkhan, explained the details of the flexible working practice during a live broadcast he attended. Minister Işıkhan stated that work on the flexible working model is ongoing and emphasized that a sector-based regulation will be implemented.
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Minister of Labor and Social Security Vedat Işıkhan participated in a live broadcast on TRT Haber. Işıkhan made statements regarding the debts of municipalities, the return of Syrians to their countries, and the declaration of 2025 as the year of the family. Işıkhan conveyed the ongoing efforts related to the transition to a flexible working model in Turkey.
"IT IS QUITE DIFFICULT TO MANAGE WORK LIFE WITH A CLASSICAL APPROACH"
"During the COVID-19 pandemic, we actually had the opportunity to try remote work, hybrid, and flexible working models. We also carried out studies aimed at new generation working models, taking this transformation into account in our national employment strategy document. In this context, it is quite difficult to manage work life with traditional structures such as employee satisfaction and work-life balance in the classical sense. Productivity is the same; we need to transform and measure productivity as well. Therefore, the emergence of new models in work life, as you have also expressed, is inevitable.
"LEGAL REGULATIONS WILL BE MADE"
In this context, we have three main headings.
- The first will be our efforts to promote flexible and hybrid working models. We will prepare the legal framework to establish hybrid and remote working models, especially in the information technology, finance, education, consulting, and service sectors.
- Considering the effects of remote work on workers' rights, as I mentioned earlier, regulations will be made regarding social security and working hours. We will further increase our incentives for supporting working methods compatible with digitalization, and in this context, for freelance and project-based working models. The platform economy has started to become a very important economy that we all know well. We will work on creating mechanisms to secure the rights of workers in this area, which we can categorize as e-commerce, freelance work, and digital services.
- Finally, I will give just a couple of examples of the work we will do to strengthen work-life balance. New practices that will increase employee productivity and prevent burnout syndrome will be encouraged.
"WE WILL NOT ALLOW MOBBING"
Especially, practices such as mobbing and discrimination in the workplace will never be allowed. We will carry out and develop legal regulations in this regard. Working hours will also be addressed again in a regulatory framework by considering flexible working arrangements and part-time working alternatives on a sectoral basis.
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