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ARTICLE · 17 NOVEMBER 2017

Employer's Right To Govern And Personal Data Management

Employees are not under the obligation to obey instructions that are against public order, law, ethics, and/or personal rights.

TurkeyEmployment and HR

In our previous article, we mentioned the need to protect private life and personal data, as almost everywhere is set up with cameras, as well as the method to provide this privacy within the scope of the Labor Law1. In this article, we shed light on the scope of employers' rights to govern, and evaluated several systems that employers have implemented in order to regulate the code of conduct in their workplaces, in regard to breaches of employees' private lives and personal data protection rights.

The Scope of Employers' Rights to Govern

Through the dependency factor of employment contracts, employees have the duty of loyalty and are under the obligation to obey their employers' instructions. As a result of these obligations, employers shall rule the workplace and form regulations in order to establish working conditions and environment. Employers create this organization as a result of their right to govern. Within this scope, for example, employers determine

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