THE TEMPORARY LAY-OFF AS AN INSTRUMENT IN CRISIS MANAGEMENT: CASE OF TURKEY

• Authors: Kuzgun 0nci Kayhan
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper aims to exam and to analyze the temporary lay-off as an employment strategy at enterprise level in Turkey. Temporary lay-off is not acted by the Labor Law 4857. However, it is used frequently by the employers in the crisis management as an instrument. This study is aimed to analyze the use of lay-off as an instrument in crisis management by the employer in Turkey. The study is structured in two sections. In the first section, a description of the temporary lay-off as an instrument in the crisis management has been given. In the section two, the characteristics and determinant parameters of temporary lay-off as the instrument in crisis management by the employer have been taken in Turkey.

Keywords

EN

Turkey; Temporary Lay-off; Crisis Management; Numerical Flexibility; Employment Security

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Gdański
• Journal: International Journal of Emerging and Transition Economies (IJETE)
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 3
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 195-207

Contributors

author

Kuzgun 0nci Kayhan

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