Department of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations has begun to its academic education in the 2005-2006 academic year. Current academic staffs of the department consist of four professor, one associate professor, four assistant professors and eight research assistants.

The aim of this department is to analyze of working life, labour market and labour relations structure and process multidimensional perspectives such as economy, psychology, sociology, law and statistics. The department provides educated individuals as entrepreneurs and labour in public and private sector, other institutions and, international institutions such as EU, ILO.