Information Package / Course Catalogue
Labour and Social Security Law
Course Code: TAK220
Course Type: Required
Couse Group: Short Cycle (Associate's Degree)
Education Language: Turkish
Work Placement: N/A
Theory: 3
Prt.: 0
Credit: 3
Lab: 0
ECTS: 3
Objectives of the Course

To teach students basic terms and application areas of individuell and collective work law which is the foundation of employment relations, social risks in business life, in the presence of these risks the supply of help and services for insurances and our nation’s social security system.

Course Content

Topics like Business law’s basic terms and principles, business contracts and types, in business contracts parties debths, charges and their types, work and rest times, the ending and outcome of business contracts, benefit severance, trade unions, collective business contracts, collective business disputes and ways of solution (mediation, strike-lock out), term of social security, arms of social security and general health will be issued.

Name of Lecturer(s)
Learning Outcomes
1.Gives the ability to use the term business law, comparison, explanation, finding a solution and application.
2.Gets basic knowledge about rights and obligations of employer and employee.
3.Deals with the protection of employers because they represent the weak party. The Turkish constitution and given organizations protect these people. It explains general terms of work health and work safety and shows their seizable prevention.
4.It explains general terms of work health and work safety and shows their seizable prevention.
5.to explain to business laws measures.
Recommended or Required Reading
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
Week 1 - Theoretical
The development of history of work law and its basic principles
Week 2 - Theoretical
Sourcesa nd application areas of work law
Week 3 - Theoretical
Work contract and its types
Week 4 - Theoretical
Debths of employers and employees
Week 5 - Theoretical
Wages and its types, Protection of wages
Week 6 - Theoretical
Working time, working overtime, hollidays and day offs
Week 7 - Theoretical
Regulations for children, woman and disabled employees
Week 8 - Theoretical
The ending of business contracts because of general reasons and rescission (Midterm Exam)
Week 9 - Theoretical
Immediate rescission and the outcomes of the ending of the business contract (severance paymnet)
Week 10 - Theoretical
Establishment of unions,Membership of unions and security, Activities of unions and their ending
Week 11 - Theoretical
Collective business contracts and incompatibility, Strike and lockout
Week 12 - Theoretical
Term of social security and insurance, Organization of social security
Week 13 - Theoretical
Arms of social insuranceSosyal Sigorta Kolları
Week 14 - Theoretical
General health insurance
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Type of AssessmentCountPercent
Midterm Examination1%40
Final Examination1%70
Workload Calculation
ActivitiesCountPreparationTimeTotal Work Load (hours)
Lecture - Theory141242
Midterm Examination110111
Final Examination115116
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)69
Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes