Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Informal Work and the Protection of Social Rights: The Gray Areas of Employment, Mehmet Öçal,Özge Kutlu, Editör, IGI Global yayınevi, Pennsylvania, ss.79-99, 2025
This article briefly defines agricultural workers in Turkey and focuses on identifying the grey areas concerning labor law, social security law, and occupational health and safety regulations, with an emphasis on unregistered employment in the agricultural sector.
The article aims to identify the grey areas in labor law, social security law, and occupational health and safety regulations concerning agricultural workers in Turkey and to propose recommendations for reducing or eliminating these grey areas.
For this purpose, this study first examines agricultural workers in Turkey, defining casual workers, regular workers, seasonal workers, and unpaid family workers in the sector. The issue of unregistered employment, one of the key factors contributing to the formation of grey areas, is then discussed, with statistical information on unregistered employment in Turkey’s agricultural sector. Subsequently, the grey areas that hinder the social protection of agricultural workers from the perspectives of labor law, occupational health and safety, and social security law are identified.