Employment Law

Professional life is more than just a contractual relationship; it is a critical legal and financial risk area that requires meticulous management. Kurucu Law Offices closely monitors the dynamics of the business world to both protect the corporate structures of employers and secure the legal rights of employees. Our primary objective is to resolve disputes through proactive interventions while they are still at the nascent stage.

1. Strategic Consultancy and Litigation for Employers

While employment law is often viewed by employers as a cost item, it can be transformed into an operational advantage through correct management. Kurucu Law Offices provides the following detailed services to equip your business with a legal shield:

Contract and Legislation Management: Structuring open-ended, fixed-term, and part-time employment contracts to include confidentiality (NDA), non-compete clauses, and penal provisions, all in alignment with current Court of Cassation precedents.
Discipline and Termination Strategies: Flawless execution of warning notices, defense requests, and reporting processes required prior to termination, ensuring a solid legal basis for "just cause" or "valid reason" terminations.
Mutual Rescission (İkale) and Mediation: Risk analysis and drafting of protocols for the termination of employment relationships through mutual agreement (ikale), as well as representation in mandatory and voluntary mediation processes.
Legal Audits: Establishing a preemptive evidence infrastructure against potential lawsuits by auditing personnel files, payroll accruals, and overtime records for compliance with legislation.

2. Seeking Justice and Collection of Claims for Employees

Protecting the fruits of labor within legal boundaries is a core area of expertise for our office. We manage the following critical processes for our employee clients:

Compensation and Labor Claims: Expert calculation and pursuit of severance pay, notice pay, overtime pay, weekend pay, and national/public holiday (UBGT) claims.
Reinstatement Lawsuits: Within the scope of job security, filing for the determination of the invalidity of termination and pursuing reinstatement, back-pay, and non-reinstatement compensation.
Bad Faith and Mobbing: Management of material and moral compensation processes against workplace pressure, discrimination, or bad-faith practices (mobbing).

3. Occupational Accidents: Dual-Sided Legal and Criminal Liability

Occupational accidents are among the most complex processes from both a humanitarian and legal perspective. Kurucu Law Offices analyzes the technical details of the incident to construct a fair defense for both parties:

For Employees: Filing material and moral compensation lawsuits based on the disability rate resulting from the accident and participating in criminal proceedings to ensure the liability of those responsible.
For Employers: Challenging technical expert reports for the determination of negligence ratios, defending against recourse claims, and providing effective representation in criminal cases involving injury or death by negligence.

Employment Contracts

Kurucu Law Offices provides consultancy on the examination and drafting of employment contracts in Turkish and English on behalf of its clients.

Kurucu Law Offices provides the necessary advice in order to raise awareness of employer clients about their obligations arising from employment contracts and to act in accordance with them.

In terms of worker (employee) clients, Kurucu Law Offices supports its clients in defending their rights arising from the law and clarified by the case law of the Court of Appeals, and examining their employment contracts in this context.

Labor Lawsuits

Kurucu Law Offices provides support to its clients with its expert lawyers in the management of individual and collective labor cases from the beginning to the end of the mediation, court and enforcement stages.

In this sense, Kurucu Law Offices takes the necessary steps to defend its clients' rights arising from labor lawsuits in the most effective way and keeps its clients informed about all processes.

Occupational Health & Safety

Kurucu Law Offices clarifies the occupational health and safety obligations of its clients in the workplace, and supports its clients in taking the necessary legal actions in this sense.

Kurucu Law Offices specializes in the management of work accident cases arising from occupational health and safety, both in legal and criminal aspects.

Internal Workplace Regulations

Kurucu Law Offices provides legal consultancy on the preparation of workplace regulations and other internal regulations that its clients may need and ensuring compliance with them.