Turkey’s Minimum Wage Determination Commission convened for the fourth and last time today and determined the net and gross monthly minimum wages for 2021. The net minimum wage will be 2 thousand 825 lira 90 kurush (~377 USD) in 2021.

"In the forthcoming period, tightness of monetary policy stance will be decisively sustained until strong indicators point to a permanent fall in inflation," the bank has said.

Ahead of the fourth and final meeting of Turkey's Minimum Wage Determination Commission next week, Confederation of Progressive Trade Unions of Turkey (DİSK) Chair Arzu Çerkezoğlu has answered the questions of bianet.

Minimum Wage Determination Commission has convened for the third time. In the meeting hosted by TÜRK-İŞ workers’ confederation, the state agency TurkStat has said that the minimum subsistence level of a worker is 2,792 lira (~366 USD).

Put on unpaid leave by a small home appliance factory in İstanbul, six workers have returned to work. Workers have announced that the Ministry sent an inspector to the factory and all their receivables since the first day of the leave have been paid.

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Antalya Directorate of Health and Health Minister Koca have announced that Dr. Alkan, the chief physician of a public hospital, has been removed from office for forcing two nurses to write “I am an idiot” for 500 times because they left their posts.

The Health and Social Service Laborers’ Union (SES) has denounced the incident where a nurse working in a public hospital in Antalya was forced to write down “I am and idiot, I left my post” for 500 times as a punishment for leaving her place of duty.

Central Bank Governor Ağbal says, “In 2021, all factors affecting inflation will be taken into account, and the tightness of monetary policy will be decisively sustained until there are strong indicators that point to price stability and a permanent fall in inflation.”

Halil Şenbüyük (16), who was driving an excavator, lost his life on December 10 after the vehicle went off the road and fell off a 50-meter cliff in Antalya.

The figure was a 2.74 billion dollars surplus in the same month last year.

The Research Center of the Confederation of Progressive Trade Unions of Turkey (DİSK) has shared its own statistics on unemployment in Turkey, refuting the recent labor force statistics released by the state agency TurkStat.

The Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) has announced the labor force statistics for September 2020. According to the TurkStat, the unemployment rate was 12.7 percent in September, which marked a 1.1 percentage point decrease.

More than 80 workers have been dismissed from the Ekmekçioğulları Metal Factory in Çorum province on the day when the United Metal Workers’ Union was granted the right to represent workers by the Ministry of Family, Labor and Social Services.

Three children, four refugees and 21 women were among the workers who were killed in the last month.

According to a recent report by the Economic Policy Research Foundation of Turkey (TEPAV), the highest increase in the number of people employed in a sector was witnessed in healthcare while the highest shrinkage was in the hospitality industry.

This is the story of two minimum wage earners. Their lives might be different, but what they are faced with is similar. Kader needs boots and Samet a coat. Do you think they can buy them? They answer: “We don’t make a living, we are just saving the day…”

Annual inflation rate rose 2.14 percentage points in November, up from 11.89 percent in October.

The deal between the sovereign wealth funds of the two countries has been finalized.

The country registered growth after a shrink of 9.9 percent in the second quarter of the year.