As it is known, with the provisional article 23 of the Unemployment Insurance Law No. 4447, in cases where the weekly working hours in the workplace are temporarily reduced by at least one-third due to the COVID-19 epidemic or the workplace is stopped working completely or partially for at least four weeks without the condition of continuity, it has been made possible to benefit from the short-time working allowance.
In the same article, the President has been given the authority to extend the period of short -time working allowance until 30/06/2021. With the President’s Decree published in the Official Gazette dated 19.02.2021, the period of short-time working allowance has been extended until 31.03.2021 for the workplaces that have applied for short-time working allowance until 31.01.2021.
