Job Security Under Turkish Law

One of the most important purposes of labor law is to protect the relationship between an employee and an employer and to secure an employee's job. In order to achieve this purpose, an internationally accepted "job security" concept was born in early 20^th century¹. The purpose of job security is to protect the employee, the weaker party in an employment relationship, against the employer. In a broad sense, job security means the protection of an employee after the termination of his/her employment agreement by the employer. In a stricter sense, job security means:

1. employer's obligation to rely on a valid reason or a just cause in terminating the employee's employment agreement;