A Comparative Overview Of Termination Of Employment Contracts in Turkish and German Law

This book is a fruit of thesis studies at the LL.M. programme in “Private Law” at Istanbul Sehir University and comprises of three main sections: (i) termination of employment contracts with notice period when the job security provisions are not applied, (ii) termination of employment contracts with notice period when the job security provisions are applied, and (iii) termination of employment contracts without notice period. Each section explains the legal background and practice of the termination processes in both jurisdictions, Turkish law and German law. The legal arrangements and the practice of termination processes appear to be very similar in both jurisdictions. However, broadly speaking, these are more employee-friendly in Germany than Turkey which can easily be inferred from, if nothing else, the length of notice periods, thresholds for the job security application, requirement of social selection process.