ABSTRACT

The concept of short work allowance and short work entered our legal system for the first time in 2003 with the 65th article of the 4857 numbered Law. In the following periods, the application was excluded from the scope of the Labor Law due to the problems related to the functioning of the system, and it was started to be covered and implemented in the Unemployment Insurance No. 4447. In this study, the short-time work allowance system, which has been implemented as a labor market policy in order to reduce unemployment, especially considering the crisis period caused by the Covid-19 epidemic, was examined. In addition, starting from Germany, where the system was born, different country practices in the Netherlands, USA, France and Japan, a far east country, were also examined. Different application models in the countries studied were examined. In the study, the terms and conditions for the application of the system, the application method and especially its effect on the existing employment contract were evaluated. In the last section, the short-work allowance system in our country, which has been implemented since the 2008-2009 crisis, and the new applications introduced with the Covid-19 epidemic, were examined, and suggestions were made on what can be done to make the system more successful and functional.