Terms Of Termination Prohibition, Mandatory Unpaid Leave, And Short-Term Working Extended

As our readers will recall from earlier articles on the short-term working subsidy and the prohibition on termination of employment contracts, the government has previously introduced certain time-limited measures in an effort to alleviate the effect Covid-19 had on employers as well as employees. Accordingly;

• With the temporary article 23 introduced to the Unemployment Insurance Law, benefiting from the short-term subsidy was made easier. For applications submitted until 30 June 2020 due to force majeure events originating from Covid-19, the condition of being employed for at least 120 days was reduced to 60 days and the condition of payment of at least 600 days of unemployment insurance premium was reduced to 450 days.