ABSTRACT

After the women took place as workers, the necessity of protecting thewomen in the worklife has arised. The protection was firstly held by theinternational organizations and for this purpose various rules conventions anddirectives have been enacted, which are designed to promote the equality betweenmen and women and to prevent the gender inequality. These regulations containprovisions on various measures such as the ones, which abolish the incomeinequality, design the limitation of working hours, and declare the workplaces andtypes of work, which are not suitable for the women workers. In the course of time, the international regulations regarding the protection ofwomen employees have also had an impact on turkish law. Turkish constitutionstates that the men and women workers have the equal rights, however the womanemployees are granted by special rights in terms of working conditions. Theseconstitutional principles have already been adopted by the turkish labourlegislation. This article discusses the harmonization of the Turkish Labour Act No. 4857,which was enacted in 2003, and the further related legislation in Turkey to theinternational rules, especially to the ILO conventions and to the directives of theEuropean Union. In conclusion, the author points out the fact that, the turkish andinternational legislation have already been successfully harmonized to a wideextent, whereas the development of the legal practice in the same way has failed