Collective contract of employment that was signed by Diyarbakir Metropolitan Municipality granted various rights to its employees.while talking related to Collective contract of employment, Hafize İpek who is Deputy Mayor of Diyarbakir says that  we have decidet to give salary of our employees  to their  wifes  if they  perform violence against  their family. “We think that such sanctions will decrease the violence” she said.

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AMED – Collective contract of employment that was signed by Diyarbakir Metropolitan Municipality granted various rights to its employees.while talking related to Collective contract of employment, Hafize İpek who is Deputy Mayor of Diyarbakir says that  we have decidet to give salary of our employees  to their  wifes  if they  perform violence against  their family. “We think that such sanctions will decrease the violence” she said.

Between  Diyarbakir Metropolitan Municipality and General Workers' Union  and DISK  General Manager , on March 10, Collective contract of employment was signed.İn this contract it was refered to 8 March International  Workers Women's Day ,  21 march Newroz’s  Feast , 25 november  Struggle  Day of Violence Against Women and because the importance of these  special days, it was also talked that these days sould be declared as administrative holiday. Hafize İpek expressed that as BDP municipalities we achieve our principles by taking them in practice.

‘It is First Time that 25 November is Announced as aAdministrative Holiday’

Hafize says that we have taken these decisions, which are about women and  workers,with the cooperation of syndicates and she also said that “ in the Collective contract of employment, to see women at the areas,we suggested 8 March International  Workers Women's Day to be administrative holiday and took the decision of 21 march Newroz’s Feast to be administrative holiday, because Newroz is a national holiday for kurdish people.We also know  know that  the  violence against women only can be see while they are   outside and in the areas, so we  took the decison of  25 november  Struggle  Day  of Violence Against Women to be administrative holiday.

‘İf the Girls do not be Sent to School,the Aids will be Cutten’

Refer to pratical steps of Diyarbakir Metropolitan Municipality which are about  developing  a women axis viewpoint, Hafize says that pratical working about women should be the main business of municipalities. Hafize mentioned that the contract has been signed to achieve increasing  workers’ economic,culture and social development.Without pratical steps it is imposiple to struggle with violence against women.As Municipality, after determination of violent,we are going to carry out these decisions and we are going to have frequent dialoques with aggrieved. We believe that,  thanks to the sanctions in the contract, ,the  violence against women   and encouragement  to  violence will decrease.

Hafize also points that there are educitional works which are   for creating social gender equality  consciousness  for women. By the decisions taken  in  the contract, if the workers do not send their girls to school the aids  which are given to their sons will also be cutten Hafize expressed.

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Translated by Aysegül Karakuş