As our readers will recall from earlier articles, the government had
introduced certain time-limited measures in an effort to alleviate
the effects Covid-19 had on employers. One of these measures was
Covid-19 related short-term working subsidy applications, where the
requirements for application were softened. Accordingly,
for applications submitted until 30 June 2020, the
condition requiring an employee to have been employed for at least
120 days had been reduced to 60 days and the condition of payment
of at least 600 days of unemployment insurance premium had been
reduced to 450 days.
The Presidential Decree numbered 3238
published in Official Gazette dated 1 December 2020
extended the term for benefiting from these softened
requirements until 31 December 2020 so that workplaces
that had not applied for the short-term working subsidy before 30
June 2020 will now have the opportunity to file their applications
until 1 December 2020. The workplaces that have already
