This tool is for information only. It is not legal advice and it is not binding. Review your shift pattern together with the legislation in force and any applicable collective agreement.
The check examines each week on its own; where an hours-averaging arrangement (denkleştirme) applies, the 45-hour week is assessed as a two-month average. National and public holidays and workplace-specific exemptions are not taken into account.
Don't download an Excel template and fill it in by hand. Let the tool build the schedule, and let it audit the schedule too. Enter your employees, your shift hours and a date range; the tool builds the rotating 24/7 rota, totals the weekly hours, and checks the working-time and rest rules of Turkish Labour Law No. 4857 and the Regulation on Shift Work cell by cell. Any cell that breaks a rule turns red with the article next to it: a night shift running into the next morning shift, a week over 45 hours, a night shift over 7.5 hours, a weekly rest day that was never granted. Free, no sign-up, nothing to install.
Enter the headcount, and paste the names if you have them. Pick the 2-shift or 3-shift pattern and type your shift hours.
Set the start date, how many weeks you are planning, the weekly target hours and the weekly rest day; add any leave days.
Press “Build the schedule”. Review the red cells and the violation list, click cells to fix them, then download the CSV or print it.
Search for a “shift schedule template” and you always get the same thing: an empty table you downloaded. You type the names into the rows and the days into the columns, and nobody tells you which cell breaks the 11-hour rest. A template adds up; it does not audit. And the international shift planners have the opposite problem: they audit, but against American or EU assumptions. They have never heard of a 7.5-hour cap on the night shift, of the two-week night rotation rule, or of the 270-hour annual overtime ceiling. If you run a site in Turkey — as a local company or as the Turkish operation of a multinational — those are exactly the rules a labour inspector will ask about. This tool does both jobs: it builds the rota, then checks it against Turkish labour law with the article printed next to every warning. You can still take the result into Excel as a UTF-8 CSV with a byte order mark, so Turkish characters open intact.
This is a rule checker, not workforce optimisation software. It produces a rotating assignment that is balanced across people, but it knows nothing about customer demand, skill or certification requirements, seniority preferences, or the minimum headcount you need per shift — it shows the people-per-day count under the table and leaves the decision to you. Where an hours-averaging arrangement (denkleştirme) applies, the 45-hour week is assessed as a two-month average; here every week is checked separately. National and public holidays, part-time work, the special rules for pregnant and nursing workers, and collective agreement clauses are out of scope.
Seven rules, and every warning carries the article it rests on: at least 11 hours of uninterrupted rest between two shifts (Article 7 of the Regulation on Shift Work together with Article 68 of Law No. 4857), at most 45 hours a week and at most 11 hours a day (Article 63), at most 7.5 hours on a night shift (Article 69), at least 24 uninterrupted hours of weekly rest within any seven-day period (Article 46), at most 270 hours of overtime per year (Article 41), and a night shift that changes at least once every two weeks (Article 8 of the Regulation on Shift Work). Offending cells are painted red, and the list tells you which employee, which day, and by how much the limit was passed.
When you download a template you build the schedule yourself, you add up the hours yourself, and nobody checks the rules. Here the tool builds it: it assigns the rotation, totals the weekly hours, and spots by itself that moving someone from a night shift straight into the next morning shift breaks the 11-hour rest. You can still download the result as CSV and open it in Excel, or print it directly — but now you are looking at an audited schedule instead of an empty template.
Because Article 69 of Law No. 4857 caps night work at 7.5 hours. In an 08-16 / 16-24 / 24-08 pattern the night shift is 8 hours, so the tool flags the 30-minute excess. This is not a bug in the tool; it is a very common non-compliance in practice. You can comply by shortening the night shift to 7.5 hours (for example 24:00-07:30), or tick the checkbox for the exemption in the last paragraph of Article 69 — tourism, private security and health services, subject to the worker's written consent.
Yes. The schedule downloads as a UTF-8 CSV with a byte order mark, which Excel opens correctly on a double click, and the cell text carries the violation flags too. The violation list downloads as a separate CSV. The print button turns the page into a clean, landscape, white-background schedule: the control panel, the menu and the marketing text are not printed, and each week fits on the paper in one piece.
Yes. Every cell in the table is a button: each click moves it to the next shift, then to a day off, then to leave. The check runs again after every click, so the hour totals and the violation list update instantly. That way you can simply try out “what happens if I move this person to Saturday night”.
No. The tool is for information only, it is not legal advice and it is not binding. Where an hours-averaging arrangement (denkleştirme) applies, the 45-hour week is assessed as a two-month average; this tool checks each week on its own. It also knows nothing about national and public holidays, collective agreement clauses, or workplace-specific exemptions. Review your shift pattern together with the legislation in force and any applicable collective agreement.