Problems Of Refugee Workers
- Payment of Salaries
- Underpayment for equal work
- Registration problems vis-a-vis Provincial Directorate of Migration Management
- Very limited Access to work permits, uninsured employment and precarity
- Poor Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) standards
- Lack of access to technical and vocational education and training
- Long Working Hours
- Physical Abuse and sexual harassment • Discrimination
- No Specific Promotion of Equal Opportunities for Women
Key Project Activities
- Providing Legal Aid Services to Syrian TGL workers (Direct legal aid will be provided once or twice a week in İstanbul and Gaziantep by two lawyers)
- Development of online legal aid tool
- Establishment of Regular social dialogue between employers’ associations and trade unions (TUs) in the TGL sector
- Screening workshop and roundtables on the integration of Syrian refugee workers in order to create a long-lasting Social dialogue among the stakeholders
- Design of Social Compliance (SC) Programme for Small Scale Subcontractor SMEs
Problems with Employers
- The main issue is with the SMEs that act as subcontractors
- In order to keep up with orders of a certain size, manufacturers abuse the workers
Solition
- Improving the social dialogue with employers’ associations develop common policy proposals addressing the human rights situation
- Screening workshop and roundtables on the integration of Syrian
refugee workers - Advanced trainings on international standards of occupation healthand safety
- Social compliance (SC) programme for small-scale subcontractor SMEs
Partners of project
Lead applicant: 3F Fælles Fagligt Forbund (United Federation of Danish Workers)
Partner: DİSK (Progresive Trade Unions Confederation of Turkey)