Labor Law No. 4857;
Annual paid leave right and leave periods
Article 53 – Annual paid leave is granted to workers who have worked at least one year, including the probation period, from the day they start work at the workplace.
The annual paid leave right cannot be waived.
The provisions of this Law regarding annual paid leave shall not apply to workers who work in seasonal or campaign jobs that last less than one year due to their qualifications.
The annual paid leave period to be granted to workers shall not be less than fourteen days for the duration of service;
a) For those who have worked from one to five years (five years included), it shall not be less than twenty days for those who have worked more than five years but less than fifteen years.
c) For those who have worked for fifteen years (included) and more, it shall not be less than twenty-six days.
(Additional sentence: 10/9/2014-6552/5 art.) Annual paid leave periods for workers working in underground works shall be increased by four days.
However, the annual paid leave period to be given to workers aged eighteen and under and fifty and over cannot be less than twenty days.
Annual leave periods can be increased by employment contracts and collective labor agreements.
Period of entitlement to annual paid leave and use of leave
Article 54 – In calculating the period required to entitle to annual paid leave, the periods during which workers have worked in one or more workplaces of the same employer shall be taken into account by combining them. However, the periods spent by workers in the workplace of an employer within the scope of this Law at the workplaces of the same employer without falling within the scope of this Law shall also be taken into account.
In the event that the worker’s attendance is interrupted for reasons other than those listed in Article 55 within a one-year period, a service period sufficient to cover these gaps shall be added and thus the end date of the one-year service period required for the worker to gain the right to leave shall be transferred to the next service year.
The one-year service period that the worker must pass for future leave rights is calculated starting from the day the previous leave right arose and towards the next year of service and in accordance with the provisions of the above paragraph and Article 55.
The worker uses his annual leave in the next year of service for each year of service calculated in accordance with the provisions of the above paragraphs and Article 55.
The periods spent in workplaces affiliated to the same ministry and workplaces of legal entities affiliated to the same ministry and in public economic enterprises or banks and institutions established based on special law or Presidential decree or workplaces affiliated to them are taken into account in calculating the worker’s annual paid leave right.
Source: Labor Law No. 4857
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