THE EFFECTS OF FLEXIBLE EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES ON SUSTAINABLE ECONOMY

Abstract

With environmental problems steadily increasing, it has become mandatory to eliminate waste generated by economic models based on natural resource extraction and to limit products that consumers will not reuse. Accordingly, the approach of maintaining resources within a continuous cycle and for as long as possible has begun to gain widespread adoption. As multinational corporations and export-oriented manufacturing countries have become aware that the traditional understanding of production causes serious problems in terms of sustainability, interest in environmentally-focused labor law solutions has rapidly grown. Chief among these solutions is flexible working. Driven also by its cost-reducing effects and features that allow employees to allocate more time to themselves, the weight of flexible employment models that are aligned with environmental protection has gained momentum in the labor market. The purpose of our article is established as demonstrating that flexible employment models, which encompass the efficient and dignified use of human resources, are indispensable to a sustainability-oriented approach to good governance. Frame within this objective, the positive impacts of flexible employment models on the circular economy, as well as their features that ensure the protection of the workforce and increase productivity, will be put forward. Accordingly, progressive improvements toward flexible employment will be analyzed on the basis of Labor Law No. 4857. In this way, efforts will be made to convey both the success of the sustainable employment approach in terms of protecting the national economy and human values, and the importance of encouraging regulations directed at flexible employment models.