Minimum wage amount is changed, and so did the upper and lower limits of average daily earning taken as basic to premium.

Family allowance, child allowance and disability benefit amounts are also redefined.

Minimum Wage amount is changed

Based on Labor Law no 4857 and with the decision of Commission of Fixing the Minimum Wages, the new parameters are set as follows:

For workers over the age of 16, the wages will be;

26.55 TL per day and 796.50 TL per month between 01.01.2011 and 30.06.2011; 27.90 TL per day and 837.00TL per month between 01.07.2011 and 31.12.2011

The person who takes a work that requires specialization in auxiliary works or in some part of the main work because of technological reasons or as necessity of work related to the product or service production at the work place and assigns his workers employed for that work only to the work he has take  is called as subcontractor.

The work that requires specialization as necessity of the work and establishment is one of the obligatory elements of the product or service production that requires a separate specialization other than the own specialization of the establishment.

The employer has to make a product or service production by means of his own employees and management organization.  However, the main work can be given to the subcontractor only if the following conditions occur together;

1- It is obligatory to employ minimum five citizens of the Republic of Turkey at the workplace for which the work permit is requested. In case the foreigner requesting such permit is the company partner, the condition of employing five persons is sought after for the last six months of the one-year work permit to be given by the Ministry.

2- For the workplace, the paid-in capital should be minimum TL100,000 or its gross sales minimum TL800,000.- or export amount of the last year minimum USD250,000.