The collective redundancy in Turkish Law

The collective redundancy in Turkish Law is regulatedunder article 29 of Labour Law dated 22.05.2003 and numbered 4857. This provision setting a specific procedure for collective redundancy, states also the cases which can be regarded as collective redundancy and the procedure that should be followed by the employer t olay off workers collectively. Although collective redundancy is laid down in Turkish legislation with respect to conditions of collective redundancy, a conceptual definition has not been provided. Regarded all legislation, comparative law and Turkish legislation on the topic, collective redundancy can be defined as laying off a number of workers for economic reasons under a collective redundancy decision. While describing the elements and legal character of collective redundancy. It is important also to set the situations that can not be considered collective redundancy in the sense of legal character of this institution although apparently there are a number of workers laid off. The procedure of collective redundancy, violation of this procedure and the sanction of this violation should be mentioned among the issues that need to be examined.