The contract of any worker inflicting violence on his/her spouse will be cancelled”. So says the provision of the Collective Labor Agreement signed by BDP municipalities with KESK’s Tüm Bel-Sen Union. The provision has become a model for other municipalities in Turkey. The provision will also be included in the contract signed by Tüm Bel-Sen and CHP’s Karadaðlar Municipality in Ýzmir.

The provision put forward by the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) municipalities in collective labor agreements aimed at ending violence against women are setting an example to the municipalities of other parties as well. The most recently signed agreement of the opposition party CHP-led municipality Karadaðlar includes a clause which reads: “Should domestic violence be ascertained in the event of a complaint by the family of a worker bond to this agreement, the mentioned worker economic and social incomes will be paid to his/her spouse.”

On the other hand, the municipality also offers its woman workers the right to paid vacation on 8 March International Women’s Day.

The mentioned and some other provisions aiming at ending violence against women were formerly put into effect by BDP’s Batman, Viranþehir, Nusaybin, Bostaniçi, Hakkâri, Yüksekova, Esendere, Diyarbakýr, Sur, Baðlar, Kayapýnar and Yeniþehir Municipalities.

The collective labor agreements put into effect by some BDP municipalities also cancel the agreement with workers who demand bride price, while financial contribution for school expenses isn’t provided for boys of workers who don’t allow their daughters to go to school.

Sur and Yeniþehir Municipalities in Diyarbakýr paid half of the salaries of seven workers to their spouses upon the approval of complaints about domestic violence.