Establishment of the Digital Media Commission

The "Law on the Establishment of the Digital Media Commission and Amendments to Certain Laws" was published in the Official Gazette today and entered into force. You can access the relevant law via the link below.

https://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/eskiler/2020/07/20200728-15.htm

With the amendment to the law;

The obligation to appoint and/or employ an occupational health and safety specialist and a workplace physician in low-risk workplaces with fewer than 50 employees and in public institutions and organizations has been postponed until the end of 2023.

Ø In businesses that applied for short-time work allowance before July 1, 2020, if normal weekly working hours are resumed, the full amount of social security contributions (employee and employer shares, excluding unemployment insurance premiums) will be covered by the unemployment insurance fund for a period of 3 months starting from the month following the end of the short-time work period. This 3-month period may be extended up to 6 months by the Presidency.

Ø The Presidency may extend the duration of the short-time work allowance, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, until December 31, 2020, on a sectoral and/or overall basis.

Ø The Presidency has been granted authority until June 30, 2021, to implement the termination ban introduced by a temporary article added to the Labor Law No. 4857 on April 16, 2020.

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