Critics say law does not offer refugees route to legal labour market as it requires employers to offer contracts and pay minimum wageFewer than 0.1% of Syrians in Turkey currently stand to gain the moral to work under much-vaunted Turkish labour laws,undermining EU claims that the legislation excuses a recent decision to deport Syrian asylum-seekers back to Turkey.
Turkish employers have allowed roughly 2000 – or 0.074% – of Turkey’s 2.7 million Syrians to apply for work permits under modern legislation enacted two months ago, according to government figures provided to aid workers at a assembly in late March. The number of permits granted has not yet been disclosed.
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Source: theguardian.com