Employee Rights under Turkish Labour Law and Personal Data Protection Law relating to the COVID-19 Vaccine
Authors: Deniz Erkan and Evin Kutlay
COVID-19 has caused changes in many areas of our lives and has interfered with fundamental rights and freedoms within the scope of administrative measures that have been taken, bringing new legal questions and problems with it. Among them are the legal problems that have arisen due to the vaccination process, which has gained momentum in recent months. This bulletin addresses the effects of the vaccination process on employee-employer relations within the scope of the labour law and, in this context, the circumstances under which employers may process employees’…
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