You Scratch My Back, I Scratch Yours – Investigating Into Turkish Labour Market

"All wealth is the product of labour" - John Locke

November 5^th will mark the 1.5-year anniversary of Turkish Competition Authority ("TCA") President Birol Küle's statements¹ on the competition concerns surrounding the labour market. His statements underline that prohibiting workforce mobility between undertakings decreases the motivation to innovate, and inherently, the trend for underpayment and flight of human capital increases. It is, of course, no coincidence that the acceleration of TCA's scrutiny in labour markets and Mr. Küle's speech overlap.

For a while now, TCA closely scrutinizes labour markets. Regardless of their sector, each undertaking can be investigated for their recruitment practices, even those once considered standardized sector practices. Indeed, any understanding in the sense of no-poaching agreements (i.e., agreements imposing obligations not to hire each other's employees), fixing the workforce competition parameters, or sharing such