The Mediation application can be made as of the date of the dispute. The parties may go to Mediation before applying to the court or they may try their chance to apply to the Mediation during the court proceedings with the time they will be granted from the court.

Mediation is a voluntary process. However, in the disputes of the Labor Law, legal law drafts have been drafted regarding the obligation to apply to the Mediator before going to court and they are waiting for the enactment.

The obligation here is related to the application, there is no obligation to reach an agreement.

The parties may at any time during the Mediation negotiations choose to stop it and apply to other legal options.

At the end of the Mediation process, when both sides reach a settlement they agree on, the Mediator prepares an agreement text on this issue and is signed by the parties.

This agreement is binding and the parties would have made their own decisions in their disputes.

If one of the parties wishes, the court may annotate the agreement and treat it as a court decision.