"Reliable Guide for Labour Life"



TİSK is a member of the following international organisations: ILO, IOE, BUSINESSEUROPE, BIAC, BUSINESSMED, UBCCE and TURKEY-EU JCC









Representation at International Level

1. International Labour Organization (ILO)

Founded in 1919, the International Labour Organization (ILO) is established for the promotion of adequate norms for working conditions and thus help to secure a universal and continuous industrial peace. Today, ILO has 174 members, including Turkey. The most salient feature of this International Organization is the principle of tripartite representation.

The ILO adopts conventions and recommendations in respect of basic human rights, employment and training policies, working conditions, social security and other matters.

All International Labour Conferences as well as Tripartite Industrial and Technical Committee meetings are closely followed by TISK.

2. International Organization of Employers (IOE)

The International Organization of Employers (IOE), of which TISK is a member, was founded in 1920, and has presently 126 member national employer organizations. Dedicated to develop the private enterprise, IOE is the sole entity that supports the social interests of employers, and represents them at international level.

3. The Confederation of European Business(BUSINESSEUROPE)

Founded in 1958 in Brussels, The Confederation of European Business (BUSINESSEUROPE) is established to develop economic and social policies to safeguard the common interests of establishments represented by employer organizations of member European countries, to set up solidarity among member employer organizations in the European Union and help them to work in coordination.

TISK's membership to BUSINESSEUROPE, an organization which embodies employer confederations of several European and EU countries, took effect as of 1 January 1988. With membership to BUSINESSEUROPE, our Confederation has assumed the task of representing Turkey before the European Commission as well as other European institutions .

4. Business and Industry Advisory Committee to the OECD (BIAC)

TISK's membership to BIAC, a specialized organ of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), took effect as of 1 January 1989.

Encompassing employer organizations of such industrialized nations as the USA, Canada and Japan as well as all European members of BUSINESSEUROPE, BIAC aims at representing the business and industry within the OECD and at finding solutions to the problems of its members in respect of their common economic and social interests. To this end, various organs of BIAC hold international meetings, seminars and symposiums on economic and industrial issues every year, and thus support industrialists and businessmen of member countries.

5. Union of Mediterranean Confederation of Enterprises (BUSINESSMED)

"Union of Mediterranean Confederation of Enterprises (BUSINESSMED ) was founded at the 5. Euro-Mediterranean Enterprises Summit, which was held in Istanbul on 1-2 March 2002, as a culmination of the process which was set off in 1995 with the adoption of the EU proposal to strengthen the Mediterranean policy by the European Council.

The decision of TİSK's membership to BUSINESSMED, which was founded by employer organisations that represent Turkey, Algeria, Cyprus, Egypt, Jordan, Israel, Lebanon, Malta, Morocco, Palestine, Syria and Tunisia, was taken in TİSK's 22nd General Assembly.

BUSINESSMED which was founded within the framework of UNIMED, a project conducted by BUSINESSEUROPE, to which TİSK has been affiliated to since 1988, and financially supported by European Commission, aim, as its basic objective, at facilitating the creation of "Mediterranean Free Trade Region" which is scheduled to be realised by 2010, through coordination and cooperation among private sector agents in the region, hence at promoting growth and trade as well as economic and social development.

Representation at National Level

Our Confederation, as the sole organization to represent the Turkish Employers in industrial relations, is represented at the following national bodies:

• Economic and Social Council
• Labour Council
• Parliamentary Committees and Commissions
• High Arbitration Board
• High Consultation Board of Social Security
• General Assembly and Executive Board of Social Security Institution
• Social Security Institution Higher Health Board
• General Assembly and Executive Board of Turkish Employment Organization
• Provincial Employment Boards
• Public Procurement Board
• General Assembly and Executive Board of National Productivity Center
• Council of Consumers
• Tripartite Consultation Board
• Minimum Wage Board
• Turkey-EU Joint Consultative Committee
• Turkish Patent Institute
• Business Councils within the Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Maritime, Trade and Commodity (TOBB)
• High Board for Disabled Persons
• Board Powered to Use the Fines Imposed Upon Wages
• Foreign Economic Relations Board
• Occupational Standards Commission
• Vocational Training Council
• Provincial Vocational Training Boards
• Occupational Advisory Commission
• State Planning Organization Expert Committees
• Labour Market Information and Consultation Board
• National Councils (Industry, National Education, Environment, Disability etc.)
• General Assembly and Executive Board of MEKSA (Foundation for the promotion of Vocational Training And Small Industry)
• Human Rights Consultation Board
• Commission for Determining Allowances for Seafarers
• Official Mediators Selection Board
• Evaluation Board for the Fines Imposed Upon Employers Failing to Employ Disabled and Ex-Convicts
• Commission for Dust Control
• Technical Committee for Climate Change
• Commission for Determining minimum number of workers in construction sector
• Tax Council
• National Occupational Health and Safety Council
• Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation (TESEV)'s General Assembly
• The Economic Development Foundation (İKV)'s General Assembly and Executive Committee
• Turkish Institute for Industrial Management's Board of Consultancy
• Center for Labour and Social Security Training and Research (ÇASGEM)'s Examination Commission
• Risk Group's Identification Commission
• Occupational Safety Expertise Training Commission
• The Coordination Council for the Improvement of Investment Environment in Turkey (YOIKK)'s Technical Committees
• City Councils
• Consultancy Board established with the Yunus Emre Foundation Law
• UNESCO - TURKEY Public Health Education National Committee

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