Following the determination of the minimum wage, there are moving days in working life. Firstly, foreign workers who have been working in the TRNC for at least one year in agriculture, animal husbandry and construction sectors since 28 July 2025 will be able to make horizontal transition between these three sectors. However, applications for transition to other sectors will not be accepted. The Ministry also suspended new preliminary applications in all sectors for workers of Bangladesh. This decision will be valid as of July 28 and will include existing applications.
On the other hand, workers of Turkmenistan will have the right to work only in the home services sector. Applications for other sectors will not be evaluated. On the other hand, the exceptional situations in the Labor of Work Permits of Foreigners remain valid; In special cases documented by audit reports, the process can be made without a waiting requirement for one year.
The Ministry said that these decisions are temporary and will be re -evaluated in line with the needs.
Within the scope of the “Minimum Wage Study on a Sectoral Basis” initiated by the Ministry of Labor and Social Security, meetings are held with representatives of the relevant ministries in order to determine minimum minimum wage compared to the professional branches in 14 sectors.
Münür Rahvancıoğlu, the Secretary of Independence, who follows the issue closely, spoke to Cyprus Post.
Rahvancıoğlu made evaluations to Cyprus Post on the sectoral minimum wage study of the Ministry and foreign labor policies. 14 stressed that the different minimum wage determination plan in the sector may lead to a serious complexity.
“Employers’ allegations of victimization is an operation against the worker”
“The current minimum wage is 44 thousand 546 TL. The minimum wage determination commission determined this figure as a minimum salary that can be experienced. If the sectoral basis will be determined, the wages should not fall below this figure.
Stating that the fields such as construction, tourism, education and health are among the planned sectors, Rahvancıoğlu said that the distinction between the sectors will lead to confusion.
Rahvancıoğlu, “Let’s say that we have separated sectors such as construction, tourism, education, health, and we have determined different minimum wages according to efficiency. Will the cleaning of the health of the cleaning in the education will be different?
Rahvancıoğlu said that the differentiation of the minimum wage compared to the sectors would mean the end of the concept of minimum wage in the known sense. In addition, the uncertainty about the minimum wage of the minimum wage in the law, the uncertainty about the minimum wage, said serious doubts.
“People from countries in worse conditions will work, albeit at a wage of 70 percent.”
Rahvancıoğlu said that the payment of 30 percent less wages in exchange for shelter and food is directly related to the public. The way is to impose sanctions on the employer, not the worker ”.
Rahvancıoğlu said that the current lodging conditions are inhuman and that 10-15 people remain in the bunk beds in a room and asked, mı Will the government, who cannot correct it, will create new slave camps, ”he asked.
Rahvancıoğlu criticized the Ministry’s permission to make new housing without improving the current situation.
In addition, many employers have an office abroad and this practice will not reduce the arrival of foreign workers said Rahvancıoğlu, “On the contrary, this suggestion is implemented, this will be better for the employer, they will pay less salary. They would not insist on such a suggestion if they would pay more salary.”
Rahvancıoğlu, “What they call shelter is often places where 10 people stay in a room. The government does not control these conditions. Now everyone will be called lodging? 10-15 people will be encouraged to stay together?” He said.
“The number of foreigners can be doubled”
Rahvancıoğlu, “The ministries should be a reputation of the first one, so new ones. The most important part of this will double the number of third nationals,” he warned.
Rahvancıoğlu, 30 percent less payment, the number of foreign nationals in the country can double the number of workers in a short time, this situation means that the employment of domestic workers said. Rahvancıoğlu, “the number of foreign nationals in the country will increase rapidly, as well as this will not be in the long term, not in a short time.” he said.
In the previous statements, it was announced that the citizens of the third country and employers who came to the TRNC will sign the contract and the employer’s responsibilities were undertaken by the employer and that the minimum wage could be paid 30 percent below the minimum wage.
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