Translating from multiple sources: Labour legislation reform in Turkey |
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Authors: | Umut Riza Ozkan |
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Affiliation: | School of Industrial Relations, University of Montreal, Quebec |
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Abstract: | Building upon the recent scholarship on “travelling ideas” and “translation”, the author discusses how ILO and EU labour standards were conveyed to Turkey's political landscape by domestic actors and how those standards were adjusted. The study first analyses the motivations of the Commission that drafted the 2003 Labour Act, and of employer and labour organizations, for choosing to draw on those international standards during the legislative reform process. It then focuses on the institutional outcomes of the reform by examining how domestic actors modified the international standards, while also preserving components of the old labour legislation, as on severance pay. |
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Keywords: | international labour standards law reform employers organization role of ILO EU Turkey |
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