Officer-Sen, Ministry of Education (MEB) It took action for all public employees who are outside the scope of the additional special service compensation regulation introduced for certain titles within the company.. Union, in regulation “prevents general application” He filed a lawsuit in the Council of State requesting the annulment of restrictive clauses..
​Regulation is in the Public “Binary Distinction” creating
July 11 2026 dated and 33307 The new regulation published in the Official Gazette no.; Provincial deputy directors of national education working within the Ministry of Education, District national education directors and branch managers who have completed a certain period of service, 3.750 with ₺ 7.483 It provides for the payment of additional special service compensation between ₺.
However, restricting this improvement only to Ministry of Education personnel started a huge debate on inequality in the public.. Excluding personnel working with the same title and responsibility in other ministries and institutions, Taken to court by Memur-Sen.
Officer-Sen: “Not for Healing, We Are Against Inequality Between Institutions”
Making a statement on the subject, Memur-Sen, He emphasized that they are fighting on every platform to ensure wage justice in the public sector and made the following statements::
​”We are working hard in every field, including the collective bargaining table, to correct the wage imbalance in the public sector.. As Memur-Sen, We are certainly not against improving the status of some titles. What we are up against; This improvement is withheld from employees working with the same title in other institutions.. Disrupting equality between institutions, We have filed a lawsuit before the Council of State to remove these restrictive phrases, which are clearly contrary to the principles of equality and regular administration, and to make the regulation inclusive.”
​What are the Grounds for the Case??
In the petition submitted by Memur-Sen to the Council of State, It was stated that excluding institutions other than the Ministry of Education is against the following principles:
​Equality Principle: in the same title, Creating a wage gap between public officials working with similar responsibilities, taking into account institutional differences,
​Principle of Orderly Administration: Damage to integrity and labor peace in public administration,
​International Conventions: Turkey is a party to, “equal pay for equal work” violation of international labor norms that stipulate.
​The course of this critical case that directly affects labor peace in the public sector, hundreds of thousands of branch managers working in other ministries, This caused the deputy provincial director and the district director to turn their attention to the Council of State..
