BASEAK’s Employment and Labor team regularly represents local and multinational businesses in connection with employment and benefits-related litigation, corporate and governmental investigations, executive compensation and counseling projects.

We represent employers in all industry sectors, including financial services, education, energy, life sciences, manufacturing, professional services, retail, technology, telecommunications and insurance.

The following represents our focus in employment and labor:

• Alternative dispute resolution (ADR)
• Business immigration
• Corporate board and committee representation
• Disciplinary and grievance procedures
• Discrimination, retaliation and unlawful harassment litigation
• Employee/independent contractor classification and disputes
• Employment and labor advice and counseling
• Employment contracts, handbooks and policies
• Equal employment, diversity and discrimination
• Executive employment and severance agreements
• Employment and labor solutions
• Human resources advice and counseling
• Internal corporate investigations
• International employment law
• IP/IT protection and litigation
• Labor relations and collective labor law negotiation with unions and employee representatives
• Occupational safety and health
• Partnership and close corporation disputes
• Privacy and security
• Restrictive covenant disputes
• Restructuring, redundancies and reductions in force
• Training
• Wage and hour/working time/overtime litigation
• Workers compensation
• Wrongful termination and unfair dismissal

Insights

Regulation on Remote Work

March 12, 2021

The Regulation specifies the works that cannot be performed remotely, the implementation of business rules regarding data protection and sharing, and the procedures and principles of remote work, and covers the employees who work remotely in accordance with Article 14 of Labour Law No. 4857 and their employers.

News and Events

Recent Press Releases

In Competition with only Yourself

April 8, 2016

This article aims to provide an overview of Turkish law related to the validity of non-compete provisions included in employment agreements. We also discuss several of the uncertainties existing in practice about the enforceability of these provisions and make suggestions for tackling these uncertainties.