“1.5 Million Subcontracted Workers Lack Job Security”

Labor and Social Security Minister Faruk Çelik answered Republican People’s Party (CHP) MP Veli Ağbaba’s parliamentary question after one year.

According to the answer, there were 1,482,690 subcontracted laborers in Turkey at the end of 2014.

Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir provinces have the most subcontracted laborers.

The numeric distribution per province is as follows: İstanbul 330,029, Ankara 151,380, İzmir 76,404, Bursa 52,233, Antalya 52,104, and Adana 40,252.

Veli Ağbaba argued that Turkey has become a subcontractor’s republic.

“The subcontracting system deprives laborers of a future, of security. 330 thousand workers in Istanbul, 151 thousand in Ankara, 76.5 thousand in Izmir have no tomorrow. 1.5 million subcontracted workers lack job security. The actual numbers are much higher than this. They have no tomorrow. The Justice and Development Party (AKP) imposed the most savage conditions of labor exploitation in its 12-year rule. The result is clear. The most blatant sign of this is the increase in subcontracted workers.” (NV/PU)

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