ABSTRACT
The deregulation policies of neoliberalism, which became the dominant economic system of the world after the Cold War and globalization, cause employees to lose power. One of the appearances of this phenomenon has been the employees’ forced unpaid leave and the spreading of unpaid overtime in the context of the flexible and insecure workforce. Although there is no regulation in the Labour Law and the Law of Obligations that will enable practices of adding overtime wages to the monthly wage, these practices are becoming more common in our country. Unfortunately, such practices in the doctrine and judicial decisions are considered only within the scope of contract freedom, this problem has not been examined in terms of protecting the worker and the interpretation principles for the benefit of the worker. However, there are protective provisions that do not leave the worker only in the contract freedom area in Labor Law No. 4857. In this study, the problem of unpaid overtime was tried to be examined from these points
Keywords : Overtime, Overwork, Unpaid overtime, Trial period, Equalization period, Principle of protecting the worker, Interpretation for the benefit of the worker
