The Ankara Branch of the Health and Social Service Laborers Union has released its report on violence in healthcare: The number of incidents of violence in healthcare reported with code white increased by 56 percent in 2020 during the pandemic.

Trendyol raised the salaries of its workers by only 11 percent despite the 36 percent official inflation rate.

As Iran has cut natural gas flow to Turkey due to a technical failure on the transmission line, the Electricity Transmission Corporation has decided to restrict electricity distribution to organized industrial zones for 3 days starting from today, January 24.

Health and Social Service Laborers Union (SES) Chair Selma Atabey has raised concerns that the Law on Violence in Healthcare, which was enacted “for show”, is not enforced even in its current state, underlining that violence is increasing by day.

Healthcare workers’ labor and professional organizations have announced that they will be on call from January 26 to February 4 and on strike on February 8, demanding an improvement in their wages and employee personal rights.

Having caught an infection as he was forced to clean the sewer at İstanbul University, 26-year-old Açıkgözoğlu lost his life in 2014. The employer has been sentenced to pay a judicial fine of 12,100 Turkish Lira.

The Central Bank has kept the interest rate at 14 percent, saying that it will use all instruments decisively "until strong indicators point to a permanent fall in inflation."

Minister of National Education Özer has announced that 50 percent of the 15 thousand teachers to be appointed on January 31 will be employed in İstanbul. The number of teachers awaiting an appointment to work in the public sector is 500,041.

Dismissed from the Uğur Textile factory in Urfa, 87 workers allege that their names have been given to the other factories in the province and they are unable to find a job anywhere for this reason.

835 workers of Çimsataş metal factory in Mersin have halted work in protest after the unions of workers and employers signed a collective labor agreement.

The gender gap in unemployment rates has reached 4.9 percent, according to BETAM.

As the collective bargaining between the BBC Turkish and the Journalists’ Union of Turkey (TGS) has ended in a deadlock, the journalists will go on strike on January 14. The decision was announced in early December 2021.

The company fired 106 workers after the Nakliyat-İş union started its activities.

According to the collective labor agreement signed by metal workers' and employers’ unions, workers’ wages will be increased by 27.44 percent in the first 6 months.

The Health and Safety Labor Watch (İSİG) has released its annual report on occupational homicides in Turkey in 2021: 86 percent of the deceased workers were wage earners while 14 percent were self-employed.

The Turkish Statistical Institute has shared the labor force statistics for November 2021: The number of unemployed increased by 39 thousand in a month. Over 2 million men, 1.5 million women and out of every four young people are unemployed.

Retired miners protested in Manisa’s Soma: “My pension was higher than the minimum wage by 304 liras. It is now lower than the minimum wage by 600 liras. Should I believe in the justice or injustice of this government?”

Gaziantep-Kilis Medical Chamber Chair Ateş Tarla has announced that an internal medicine specialist was hit in the head with a heavy object at a public hospital in Antep.

In a statement for the press, physicians have demanded that the legal amendment foreseeing improvements in the salaries and employee personal rights of physicians be brought into the Parliamentary agenda immediately.

Financial difficulties, mobbing, favoritism and job insecurity are among the main problems of public employees, according to the KESK survey.