Employment Protection Legislation

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This database includes data on strictness of employment protection legislation for overall, regular and temporary employment.
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Strictness of employment protection legislation: regular employment You do not have access to this content

Authors:
OECD
Publication Date :
13 Apr 2010
Data are: :
Annual
DOI :
10.1787/data-00318-en
Years covered :
1985-2009

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This dataset contains information on the stringency of national legislation on employment protection for regular job types. Synthetic indicators are available for collective dismissals, difficulty of dismissal, fixed term contracts, notice and severance pay for no-fault individual dismissals, overall EPL, overall strictness of protection against dismissals, overall strictness of regulation, regular procedural inconveniences and temporary work agencies. Data range from 0 to 6 with higher scores representing stricter regulation.
Also available in: French
Keywords: employment, strictness of employment protection legislation, protection legislation, EPL