Two important consultation meetings on working life and public personnel system will be held in October under the chairmanship of Minister of Labor and Social Security Vedat Işıkhan.
Under the chairmanship of Minister of Labor and Social Security Vedat Işıkhan, the Tripartite Advisory Board meetings will be held on October 6, and the Public Personnel Advisory Board meetings will be held on October 8.
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Tripartite Advisory Board and Public Personnel Advisory Board meetings are held regularly regarding working life and the public personnel system.
Under the chairmanship of the Minister of Labor and Social Security Vedat Işıkhan, the Tripartite Advisory Board meetings will be held on October 6 and the Public Personnel Advisory Board (KPDK) meetings will be held on October 8.
Orhan Onur Gemici
According to the statement made by the Ministry, two important consultation meetings on working life and public personnel system will be hosted by the Ministry in October.
The first of the meetings to be chaired by Vedat Işıkhan, Minister of Labor and Social Security, will be held on Tuesday, October 6.
TÜRK-İŞ, HAK-İŞ and DİSK, representing the workers, and the Confederation of Turkish Employers' Unions (TİSK), representing the employers, will attend the Tripartite Advisory Board meeting, which will be held with the agenda of "New Working Methods in Working Life".
At the meeting, new working methods that may emerge in the face of changing conditions of working life will be discussed and evaluations will be made on the subject.
The Tripartite Advisory Board last met on October 9, 2025, with the agenda of "Expansion of Trade Union Organization".
The public personnel system will be discussed
Another important meeting of working life will be held on Thursday, October 8.
The KPDK meeting, chaired by Minister Işıkhan, will be held in the Reşat Moralı Meeting Hall at the Ministry.
At the meeting to be held with the agenda of "Issues in need of regulation regarding the public personnel system", the issues that need regulation in the public personnel system will be evaluated.
The Public Personnel Advisory Board last met on April 22, 2026, with the agenda of "Review of the Public Servants' Unions and Collective Agreement Law No. 4688 within the Framework of Current Conditions Regarding Working Life".
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KPDK meeting will be held on October 8
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