Iskur - Agency of Employment

• Turkish Employment Agency was established for aiding activities of protecting, improving, generalizing of employment and preventing unemployment, and for executing unemployment insurance services has obtained a structure that enable it to implement active and passive labour force policies alongside its classical services of finding jobs and employees within an extended mission area. • A General Council, in which social parties have a majority and representatives of public and universities can also participate, has been formed in order to aid creating the employment policy of Turkey, by adopting an organization model open to participative and social dialogue. • Executive Board including representatives of workers, employers, merchants and craftsmen has been formed as the organ of the institution which possesses the supreme administration and decision-making abilities, authority and responsibility. • Provincial Employment Boards have been formed so as to improve local initiative in regional development and determine local employment policies in provinces. • Establishment of Private Employment Agencies has been permitted so that they render both domestic and overseas activities of finding jobs and employees, and the monopolistic authority of the Institution in this field has been abolished. • In order to deliver active services in provinces, Regional Directorates have been abrogated and Provincial Directorates have been constituted. • As career vocation, Employment and Vocational Expert has been generated in order the missions of the Institution to be delivered actively and to provide qualified personnel employment.