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Regional policy register (Turkey and Middle East)

Owner Natalie McCreath Reviewed 1 months ago Next review 2027-02-14 Current

The regional policies are kept as signed PDFs rather than wiki text. This page is the register: what exists, for which region, how old the document is, and what is wrong with it. The PDFs are the source of truth; this page tells you which one to open.

The register

Document dates are read from the filename prefix, which ATÖLYE uses as YYMM.

Policy Region Document Dated Flags
Leave Turkey 2506_ATOLYE_TR_Leave_Policy.pdf Jun 2025
Leave Middle East 2506_ATOLYE_Dubai_Leave_Policy_(1).pdf Jun 2025 Notion page archived; (1) suffix
Benefits Middle East 2506_ATOLYE_Dubai_Benefits_Policy.pdf Jun 2025 No Turkey equivalent
Overtime Turkey 2310__ATOLYE_TR-ENG_Overtime_Policy.pdf and 2310_ATOLYE_TR_Overtime_Policy_(1).pdf Oct 2023 Two PDFs, unclear which governs
Occupational Health & Safety Middle East 2311_ATOLYE_HSE_Policy_(Turkish_Version).pdf and 2311_ATOLYE_HSE_Policy_(English_Version)_(1).pdf Nov 2023 Turkish-language policy filed under Middle East; no Turkey page
Advance Payment Middle East _2204__ATOLYE_Dubai_Advance_Payment_Policy_.pdf Apr 2022 Legacy attachment host
Hybrid Work Turkey 2205_ATOLYE_TR_Hybrid_Work_Policy_(EN).pdf May 2022 Legacy attachment host; no Middle East equivalent
Team Lunches Middle East (page text, not a PDF) Aug 2023 See Team Lunches
Advance Payment Turkey not yet catalogued
Bonus Turkey not yet catalogued
Bonus Middle East not yet catalogued
Overtime Middle East not yet catalogued
Operational Accountability Turkey not yet catalogued
Operational Accountability Middle East not yet catalogued

Six rows remain uncatalogued. Their Notion pages exist; their document details have not been checked.

Coverage gaps

Policy Turkey Middle East
Leave, Bonus, Advance Payment, Overtime, Operational Accountability yes yes
Hybrid Work yes missing
Benefits missing yes
Team Lunches missing yes
Occupational Health & Safety missing yes (in Turkish)

Four policies exist in one region only. Each is either a genuine legal difference, an accidental gap, or drift between two people maintaining separate sets. Nobody appears to have decided which.

The Occupational Health & Safety case is the strangest: a Turkish-language HSE policy is filed under Middle East, and Turkey — where the occupational health and safety obligation is statutory and specific — has no page at all.

This also resolves a long-standing defect elsewhere. The Code of Ethics references Occupational Health and Safety twice, both truncated mid-sentence with no content. The policy was never missing; the Code of Ethics just failed to embed it, and has looked broken since 2022.

What the register model costs

Keeping the PDFs is a defensible choice — they are signed, formatted, and legally the artefact. Two honest weaknesses come with it, and the register is the mitigation:

You cannot search inside them. Nobody will find "what happens to unused leave" by searching the wiki. The register is how they find the right document to open, so the summary column has to earn its place.

The review date on this page does not prove a PDF was re-read. Bumping reviewed here only means someone checked the register. The document dates in the table above are the real signal — when a 2205 document is still current in 2026, that is visible in the register whether or not anyone bumped anything.

So the discipline is: when a PDF is reissued, update its row. A register whose dates stop moving is exactly as useless as the Notion verification stamps were.

Actions

  1. The Middle East Leave Policy page is archived — in Notion's trash — while the live index still links to it. Confirm whether that was deliberate, and resolve the (1) duplicate.
  2. Turkey Overtime has two PDFs from the same month. One is marked TR-ENG, the other TR ... (1). Establish which governs and remove the other.
  3. Two documents predate 2023 and sit on Notion's legacy attachment host: Advance Payment (Middle East) and Hybrid Work (Turkey). Working patterns in particular have moved a great deal since May 2022.
  4. Catalogue the remaining six rows.
  5. Decide the four coverage gaps — deliberate or accidental.
  6. Move every PDF to Drive with the same filenames and link them from this table.
Edit this page at content/policies/regional-policy-register.md. Change the content and bump reviewed in the same commit — that is the whole review process. Migrated from Notion: source page.