OVERVIEW OF THE EMPLOYEES’ EXCUSED LEAVES

While workers are performing their duties, moral impossibilities\rarising from personal reasons usually because of their relatives may\roccur. These situations which happen because of the death of the firstdegree relatives of workers, a male employee’s wife giving birth, adoption, marriage, the treatment of a child with a disability or a chronic\rillness, make the employee absent from work for a short period of time.\rAlthough it has been applied for a long time in labour law, it was\rregulated for the first time under the title of “excused leave” in additional article 2 of Labour Code no 4857 in 2015 granting the employees\rthe right of paid leave due to absenteeism.\rAltough it is referred as a “leave”, its purpose is not to rest, like\rother leaves. This study aims, we try to explain the excused leave in the\rcontext of their use and the consequences of not being able to use them,\rin comparison with the Maritime Labour Law, The Press Labour Law\rand Civil Servants Law. Finally, the study brings light to the positive\rand negative aspects of the regulation within the framework of the implementation problems related to the excused leave.