EMPLOYMENT

“Sen aziz şehrim,
Uykusuz yaşadığımı bilmelisin.
Bütün işçilerin
Saçak altında uyuduğu bir saatte,
Ben mızıka çalarak geçiyorum sokaktan.”

“You, my holy city
You should know I live without sleep
At the hour
When all workers are sleeping under the eaves,
I pass through the street playing the harmonica.”

Rüştü Onur (1920 – 1942)

TURUNÇ advises domestic and multinational clients on all aspects of labor and employment laws.

Our practice has three main components: compliance, transactions and dispute resolution.

On the compliance side, we advise on the following issues, among others:

  • individual employment and collective labor agreements
  • contracting out of services
  • confidentiality agreements and restrictive covenants
  • employee invention assignment agreements
  • individual and group severance arrangements
  • executive remuneration, and related regulatory and disclosure obligations
  • data privacy

We also advise on all employment law aspects of corporate transactions, in particular mergers and acquisitions. Our advice includes, among other things the following:

  • due diligence
  • structuring
  • transfer of employees including automatic transfers
  • assessment of potential post-closing liability by acquiror including as they relate to severance payments
  • drafting and negotiation of transfer agreements
  • notifications to pertinent authorities
  • post-closing integration work

We also have a large employment dispute resolution practice, which includes, among other work, the following:

  • defending employers against claims by current and ex-employees
  • representing employers in mediation and all stages of litigation.
  • representing employers against employees and ex-employees who misappropriate trade secrets

TURUNÇ published the book Turkish Labor Law in 2010. Our employment lawyers have also authored or contributed to various other publications. Please see our Publications page.

SELECT NEWS FROM EMPLOYMENT

TURUNÇ Advises Boğaziçi Ventures on its Investment in Retter.io

19 Mar 2024
TURUNÇ has advised Boğaziçi Ventures on its investment in Retter.io, a provider of products for faster backend development. Inveo Ventures also joined the round. Boğaziçi Ventures is a leading Turkish Capital Markets Board-regulated venture capital fund focused primarily on fintech, health tech, retail tech and gaming. The TURUNÇ team included Kerem Turunç, Yasemin Erden, Beste...

TURUNÇ Advises Lightspeed Venture Partners on its Investment in Intenseye

14 Mar 2024
TURUNÇ has advised Lightspeed Venture Partners, a U.S.-headquartered global venture capital fund, on its investment in Intenseye, an AI-powered workplace safety platform. The TURUNÇ team included Noyan Turunç, Kerem Turunç, Esin Çamlıbel, Beste Yıldızili Ergül and Naz Esen. Please see here for the press release.

Significant Changes to the Turkish Personal Data Protection Law

12 Mar 2024
The Turkish Parliament has recently enacted significant amendments (the “Amendments”) to the Turkish Personal Data Protection Law (“PDPL”). We present below a summary of these Amendments, which will enter into force on June 1, 2024. 1. Processing of Sensitive Personal Data[1] 1.1 Current Legislation According to the current legislation (PDPL article 6), sensitive personal data...