Everhour supports time tracking and project budgeting, while Turkish labor rules require careful weekly, daily, and privacy controls.
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A Turkey time tracking workflow helps you record employee hours, separate regular work from premium time, and keep usable records for payroll or client billing. Turkish Labour Law No. 4857 generally caps weekly working time at 45 hours unless a lower contractual weekly schedule applies, so a weekly total alone is not enough for every team.
Daily limits also matter. If working time is spread unevenly across workdays, daily working time may not exceed 11 hours. A practical record should show each workday, start and end times or approved duration, breaks, project or client allocation, and the person responsible for review.
Turkey separates overtime from extra-hours work. Work over 45 hours in a week is overtime and is paid at the employee's hourly rate plus 50%. If an employee's agreed weekly schedule is below 45 hours, time above the agreed schedule and up to 45 hours is extra-hours work and carries a 25% premium.
This distinction prevents a common payroll error: treating every hour above contract as overtime. A 40-hour contract with 43 hours worked creates 3 extra hours, not weekly overtime above 45 hours. Annual controls matter too, because total overtime work for an employee may not exceed 270 hours in a year.
Employee time records and attendance data are personal data in Turkey under Law No. 6698, known as KVKK. Employers need lawful processing, specified legitimate purposes, proportionality, retention only as needed, employee notice, and data security measures. Time tracking should collect the hours needed for payroll, billing, scheduling, and compliance review.
Biometric attendance needs special caution. On April 29, 2026, the Turkish Data Protection Board decided that biometric data processing for attendance tracking does not satisfy proportionality where less intrusive options are available, including PIN, password card, RFID/NFC card, signature, paper attendance sheets, or supervised manual entry.
A simple weekly tracker is enough for a freelancer, a small project, or a one-off payroll check when the hours are clean and the record will not need much approval history. It should still show Turkish lira amounts for local payroll, billing, or labor-cost review, commonly marked as TL or ₺.
A managed workflow becomes necessary when hours feed budgets, invoices, payroll review, and client reporting. Everhour Project Budgeting can track hour-based or money-based budgets, recurring budget periods, threshold email alerts, budget protection, billing methods, and client-level budgets as people log time.
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Yes. Turkey has domestic rules requiring employers to track and document employees' working time. This is a Turkish labor-law requirement, not an EU CJEU working-time-recording obligation. A useful record should show daily work, breaks, weekly totals, and review status so payroll can separate regular hours, extra-hours work, and overtime.
Turkish Labour Law No. 4857 generally uses 45 hours per week as the standard cap unless a lower contractual schedule applies. Hours over 45 in a week are overtime. Hours above a lower agreed schedule and up to 45 are extra-hours work, so the tracker needs both the contract schedule and the actual weekly total.
Turkey's minimum rest breaks are 15 minutes for work of 4 hours or less, 30 minutes for work over 4 and up to 7.5 hours, and 1 hour for work over 7.5 hours. A timesheet should keep break entries separate from time actually worked so daily totals and payroll review stay accurate.
Turkey caps total overtime work for an employee at 270 hours in a year. A monthly or weekly view can miss the year-to-date total, especially when several managers approve time for the same person. The safer workflow keeps an employee-level overtime balance across projects and departments.
Biometric attendance is the highest-risk choice for ordinary timekeeping. On April 29, 2026, the Turkish Data Protection Board said biometric processing for attendance tracking does not meet proportionality when less intrusive options can be used. PINs, password cards, RFID/NFC cards, signatures, paper sheets, and supervised manual entry are named alternatives.
Everhour Project Budgeting tracks hour-based and money-based budgets as employees log time against projects. Teams can use recurring budget periods, email alerts at defined thresholds, budget protection, and client-level budgets to compare Turkish lira labor costs with approved project limits.
Use Everhour Project Budgeting to connect tracked hours with money budgets, recurring limits, alerts, and billing methods, giving teams a clearer view of Turkish lira project costs.
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