Tevhide Sadioğlu Özkan, a senior solicitor in the Labour and Social Security Law Department at Egemenoğlu, provides comprehensive legal advisory services to both domestic and international clients within the scope of Turkish Labour Law. Providing strategic support to clients at every stage of the employment relationship, Özkan offers consultancy across a wide range of areas, from recruitment processes and the drafting of employment contracts to the development of internal regulations and policies, and the management of employment termination procedures. Tevhide Sadioğlu Özkan’s practice area encompasses the implementation of compliance processes for employers under Turkish Labour Law, the assessment of employees’ rights and obligations, the management of disciplinary procedures, and the conduct of legal risk analyses of workplace practices. She also advises companies on collective labour law, trade union relations, collective bargaining processes, and compliance with occupational health and safety legislation. In the field of dispute resolution, she represents clients before Turkish courts in cases arising from employer-employee relations; providing effective legal support in disputes relating to reinstatement claims, claims for severance pay and notice pay, overtime, workplace bullying, discrimination and other employee claims, as well as disputes arising from workplace accidents, occupational diseases and all types of disputes stemming from collective labour law and social security law. In addition, the firm manages mediation and conciliation processes, conducts pre-litigation risk assessments and resolves
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