6 mai 2016
Client Alert | Turkey | Employment Law
A new “Law on Turkish Human Rights and Equality Institution” ("Law"), no. 6701, was published in the Official Gazette no. 29690 dated 20 April 2016. It entered into force on its publication date.
This new Law revoked the “Code on Turkish Human Rights Institution” no. 6332, dated 21 June 2012 ("Amended Law").
Pursuant to Article 3 of the Law, each person may equally benefit from legal rights and freedoms. The Law forbids discrimination based on gender, ethnicity, nationality, skin colour, language, religion, philosophical or political opinion, wealth, birth, marital status, medical condition, disability or age.
The Law stipulates nine types of discrimination, with mobbing listed as one of them with regard to Employment Law. The Law specifically describes mobbing as “intentional actions to disincline, to isolate and to make him/her wary of a person in the workplace based on the discrimination types listed in the Law under Article 2 § 1(g).”
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