The Law on the Civil Servants Law and Some Laws and Law No. 663 on the Amendment of the Decree in the Law No. 663, which envisages giving teams to 458 thousand 615 contract employees working in the public sector, was accepted in the Plan and Budget Board of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey.
According to the proposal, among those who openly serve as deputy imam-hatip and deputy muezzin-trustee in the provincial organization of the Presidency of Religious Affairs, those who meet the necessary conditions can be appointed to the officer teams with the titles of imam-hatip and muezzin-trustee to be appointed in places to be announced by the Presidency.
In order to be appointed as a deputy imam-hatip and deputy muezzin-trustee to the titled civil servant team, they will have to apply within 30 days from the date of entry into force of the regulation, get enough points in the Public Employee Selection Exam, which is still valid, and be successful in the verbal or practical exam.
Those appointed to the officer teams will not be able to transfer to other public institutions and organizations for a period of 4 years. In the event that the teacher requirement of foreign nationals, which arises as a result of the norm team in the Ministry of National Education, cannot be met with the employment of team teachers, it is certain that teachers, those whose services will be needed part-time, specialists from the Named Medical Institution, art faculty members of State Conservatory, artisans of Istanbul Municipality Conservatory, in foreign institutions and abroad organizations. Employees who will be employed in certain services will also be able to be employed by contract in necessary cases.
The examination and exceptions to be applied in the selection of the contracted worker, the upper limits of the prices that can be paid to them, the extent of the end-of-work compensation to be given, the permits to be made, the title and qualifications of the position, the termination of the contract, the cancellation of the positions, the issues related to employment and the contract separately for the worker to be employed in foreign organizations. The basis and methods will be determined by the President.
The terms of the service contract of the contracted employee to be employed in foreign organizations within the scope of this paragraph shall be determined by the President in obligatory cases, without seeking the rule of being finite with the financial year.
Persons employed in this way will not be employed in the contracted workers positions of the institutions, unless their contract is terminated by their institutions due to acting contrary to the basics of the service contract, or if they unilaterally terminate the contract within the contract period, except for the exceptions determined by the President’s decision, unless they renew the contract within 1 year from the date of termination and the end of the contract.
In public administrations subject to the Civil Servants Law, contracted workers can be employed to be employed in the titles to be determined by the President, without the condition that the work is discontinuous. In this context, those who have completed a 3-year working period in the same institution, among the contracted workers employed in this context, will be assigned to the same titled civil servant teams, if they make a request within 30 days from the end of this deadline.
The teams to be assigned to those who do not have a team of officers with the exact title of their status will be determined by the President. This worker cannot be assigned to another place for a period of 3 years, except for life safety and health reasons. Those assigned to officer teams will be on mission for at least 1 more year on the same ground.
In this context, the service deadlines of those appointed to the civil servant teams in the status of contract workers will not exceed the degrees they can rise compared to their education status, and the earned rights will be paid more in determining the monthly degrees and levels.
Those appointed to the officer teams will be entitled to the financial and social rights of the team they are assigned to as of the beginning of the month following the date of the mission, and there will be no set-off for the financial and social rights they received in their previous situations. In this context, no end-of-work compensation will be paid to those assigned to civil servant teams.
Application within 30 days, assignment within 60 days
According to the proposal, 4B of the Civil Servants Law and some laws and law decisions, excluding those who work part-time with a maturity of less than 1 year, on some days of the month or week or certain hours of the day, and those who work in research and development projects of higher education institutions with finite project durations. The contracted worker within the scope of the decrees and the contracted worker performing a mission in local administrations will be appointed to the civil servant teams if they apply in writing within 30 days from the effective date of the law.
With the regulation, the worker who was transferred to the team in local administrations can only be transferred in the middle of the local administrations, and the other employee who is transferred to the team will have the right to transfer from the date they complete 4 years of service, including the deadlines spent in a contracted position.
According to the proposal, those who work as contract workers before 28 November 2022 will be able to switch to the civil servant team.
According to the Civil Servants Law, some of those who work in contracted worker positions within the scope of 4B will be taken to the organization and unit where their status is visa, and some to the officer teams determined by the President.
Those who work in the special provincial administration, the municipality and its affiliates and local government unions and meet the general conditions will be transferred to the civil servant team, which is based on their employment as contract workers.
Those who apply in writing within 30 days will be appointed by their institutions within 60 days from the effective date of this element.
According to the proposal, those who have not lost their job on 28 November 2022 due to reasons such as military service, birth, adoption, assignment, free leave will also benefit from the regulation. The deadlines for application and appointment for these individuals will again start from the date they are put into service.
Recruitment of contracted craftsmen
With the proposal, contracted artists who always work in the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the General Directorate of State Opera and Ballet and the General Directorate of State Theaters, and contracted artists who are employed within the scope of periodic and seasonal services for less than 1 year, having different financial and social rights within the scope of 4B, which fulfills one-to-one or exemplary missions. The worker is also brought to the same status as the craftsmen who always make a mission.
Accordingly, the vacancies of the institutions will be used in the appointments to be made. If there are not enough vacancies, the situation will be deemed to have been created with the appointment. Appointments made in this way will be notified to the institution where the Public Worker Information System is located, by specifying the title, number, organization and unit within 1 month following the appointment process. The Ministry of Culture and Tourism will be authorized to eliminate any hesitations that may arise in the implementation of this issue.
Assignment of contracted worker in municipalities
With the amendment made in the Municipality Law, the appointment of contracted workers working in local administrations will be made with KPSS. Accordingly, the recruitment of the contracted worker will be subject to the method of being recruited to the officer teams for the first time. Those who have completed the 3-year working period among the contracted workers will be assigned to the officer teams based on their employment as contract workers, upon their request. In this context, those appointed to civil servant teams will not be able to be transferred to other public institutions and organizations for a period of 1 year. Provided that the service periods spent by them in their contracted worker positions do not exceed the degrees that they can rise compared to their educational status, they will be paid more in determining the monthly degrees and levels of vested rights.
With the proposal, it is also ensured that those who openly act as substitute midwives and nurses in the Ministry of Health are included in the team.
Accordingly, those who openly work as a substitute midwife and nurse and carry the general rules in the law will be appointed to the midwife and nurse teams by the Ministry, if they apply within 30 days from the effective date of the regulation. Pursuant to this issue, those who are appointed to civil servant teams will not be transferred to other public institutions and organizations within 4 years.