Apparently there’s a new law in Turkey that companies have to employ five Turkish workers for every foreign employee they bring in. There are also new wage caps for foreign employees.
While the wage caps are news to me, I’m not completely sure the Turk-to-foreigner ratio law is so new. When I lived in Kemer, I knew several restaurant owners who said they wished they could hire a German or English waiter, but it wasn’t possible because you had to have X number of employees in order to hire a foreigner, and they didn’t have that many. And that was 2004, so I’m confused as to how this is a “new” law, but perhaps I was misunderstanding something before. Since I don’t have a job myself, I don’t really keep up with these issues, but I’d be interested to know how foreign tourist agencies are going to fare, and what the reaction to the wage cap will be.
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