20.01.2025 11:52
While the amendment work on the Labor Law, which directly affects millions of workers, is ongoing, Minister of Family and Social Services Mahinur Özdemir Göktaş stated that the flexible working model is on the agenda. The details of the studies regarding flexible working life have emerged.
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The government has accelerated its efforts to make new regulations on many topics, from wages to working hours, flexible working models, and weekly and annual leave.
HOW DOES FLEXIBLE WORKING WORK?
Flexible working is known as a work arrangement that gives employees more say in where, when, and how they work. A company with flexible working options may allow its employees to work remotely for part of the week instead of working on-site five days a week.
WHO CAN BENEFIT FROM FLEXIBLE WORKING?
Studies related to the flexible working model are ongoing. The AK Party is preparing a legal regulation that will introduce a new definition for flexible working. The law will define which job groups the flexible working model will cover one by one. In the coming days, discussions will be held with employer representatives and civil society organizations regarding the flexible working model that will cover certain professional groups.
FLEXIBLE WORKING WILL BE REDEFINED
According to a report by Yeni Şafak, AK Party sources stated that recent claims in the news regarding the flexible working model suggesting that working hours would be shortened are not true, and that shortening working hours in the public sector is not on the agenda. With the changes to the Labor Law, 'flexible working' will be redefined. Flexible working will include groups such as those who do not work full-time, those who work part-time, those who work on certain days of the week, and those who do short-term jobs, such as temporary workers. The flexible working model will be applied not generally, but specifically to individuals.
SOME TOPICS ARE STANDING OUT
The 'flexible working model' that will cover certain professional groups focuses on "remote working model, part-time working model, variable time working model, and academic training working model."
Some companies implementing flexible working hours continue with a system they call "compressed week," while others adjust the start and end times of working hours by moving them one hour forward or backward (provided that the employed person completes the total working hours) to continue.
FLEXIBLE WORKING IS BEING IMPLEMENTED IN MANY COUNTRIES
Under the flexible working system, working hours have decreased in many countries. In the Dominican Republic, the government announced that working hours would be reduced from 44 hours to 36 hours as part of a voluntary trial process. In this context, companies generally work 8 hours every weekday and 4 hours on Saturdays, but they can spread the hours across days as long as they do not exceed 44 hours a week.
In 2023, the UK launched the world's largest four-day workweek trial and received positive results. Some companies in the US have also transitioned to a shorter workweek, while a bill was approved in Chile to reduce the weekly working hours from 45 to 40 hours.
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