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In a way, it helps you navigate the labour markets of 145 countries. The labour market regulation affecting around more than 90% of the 3.5 billion global labour force has been analysed and scored under the Index. The aim is to make all this abstract legal information accessible to workers in order to improve their working lives. Similarly, the work is useful for national and trans-national employers to ensure compliance with local labour legislation. \u003C\u002Fp>","dark",{"type":70,"data":71},"links_block",{"title":72,"description":73,"variant":36,"links":74},"Labour Rights Index Comparison by Topic","The Heatmap 2024 offers you insight into 10 topics. In this way, it becomes clear per country whether subjects like Gig Work, Minimum Wages, Night Work Premiums and more are included in national legislation.",[75,80,83,86,89,92,95,98,101,104],{"title":76,"url":77,"description":76,"rel":78,"type":79},"Fair Wages","\u002Fwork\u002Flabour-law\u002Findex\u002F2024\u002F2024-the-index-in-text-explanation\u002Ffair-wages","follow","internal",{"title":81,"url":82,"description":81,"rel":78,"type":79},"Decent Working Hours","\u002Fwork\u002Flabour-law\u002Findex\u002F2024\u002F2024-the-index-in-text-explanation\u002Fdecent-working-hours",{"title":84,"url":85,"description":84,"rel":78,"type":79},"Employment Security","\u002Fwork\u002Flabour-law\u002Findex\u002F2024\u002F2024-the-index-in-text-explanation\u002Femployment-security",{"title":87,"url":88,"description":87,"rel":78,"type":79},"Family Responsibilities","\u002Fwork\u002Flabour-law\u002Findex\u002F2024\u002F2024-the-index-in-text-explanation\u002Ffamily-responsibilities",{"title":90,"url":91,"description":90,"rel":78,"type":79},"Maternity at Work","\u002Fwork\u002Flabour-law\u002Findex\u002F2024\u002F2024-the-index-in-text-explanation\u002Fmaternity-at-work",{"title":93,"url":94,"description":93,"rel":78,"type":79},"Safe Work","\u002Fwork\u002Flabour-law\u002Findex\u002F2024\u002F2024-the-index-in-text-explanation\u002Fsafe-work",{"title":96,"url":97,"description":96,"rel":78,"type":79},"Social Security","\u002Fwork\u002Flabour-law\u002Findex\u002F2024\u002F2024-the-index-in-text-explanation\u002Fsocial-security",{"title":99,"url":100,"description":99,"rel":78,"type":79},"Fair Treatment","\u002Fwork\u002Flabour-law\u002Findex\u002F2024\u002F2024-the-index-in-text-explanation\u002Ffair-treatment",{"title":102,"url":103,"description":102,"rel":78,"type":79},"Child and Forced Labour","\u002Fwork\u002Flabour-law\u002Findex\u002F2024\u002F2024-the-index-in-text-explanation\u002Fchild-and-forced-labour",{"title":105,"url":106,"description":105,"rel":78,"type":79},"Freedom of Association","\u002Fwork\u002Flabour-law\u002Findex\u002F2024\u002F2024-the-index-in-text-explanation\u002Ffreedom-of-association",{"type":108,"data":109},"single_content_highlight_block",{"title":110,"description":111,"variant":68,"layout":112,"image":8,"media":113,"link":116},"About the Labour Rights Index","The Labour Rights Index is a de jure index that measures major aspects of employment regulation affecting a worker during the employment life cycle in 145 countries.\r\nThe Labour Rights Index covers 10 topics\u002Findicators and 46 evaluation criteria. All of these are based on substantive elements of the Decent Work Agenda. The criteria are all grounded in UDHR, five UN Conventions, five ILO Declarations, 35 ILO Conventions, and four ILO Recommendations. \r\nThe Labour Rights Index is based on more than 15 years  of research by WageIndicator Foundation (Netherlands) and the Centre for Labour Research (Pakistan). More than 30 WageIndicator team members have contributed to the Index by providing relevant data informing various indicators under the Index.","image_right",{"type":114,"url":115},"video","https:\u002F\u002Fyoutu.be\u002F_aptyZWBoOQ?si=XLxUi2U_GXo0Nuh7",{"title":110,"url":117,"description":110,"rel":78,"type":79},"\u002Fwork\u002Flabour-law\u002Findex\u002F2024\u002F2024-the-index-in-text-explanation",{"type":108,"data":119},{"title":120,"description":121,"variant":36,"layout":122,"image":8,"media":123,"link":126},"What is Unique?","Despite the availability of multiple indices measuring performance, the Labour Rights Index is the most comprehensive one yet in terms of scope. The Index looks at every aspect of the working lifespan of a worker and identifies the presence of labour rights, or the lack of it, in national legal systems worldwide. It has 10 indicators and 46 components or evaluation criteria. The scoring is based on an analysis of thousands of pages of labour legislation. Instead of engaging outside experts, the work is done by the WageIndicator Labour Law Office, i.e., the Centre for Labour Research with support from WageIndicator global and country teams.","image_left",{"type":124,"image":125},"image","\u003Cimg src=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwageindicator.org\u002Fmedia\u002Fimages\u002F7c0503f5--cta-landscape-2024.width-610.png\" srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwageindicator.org\u002Fmedia\u002Fimages\u002F7c0503f5--cta-landscape-2024.width-610.png 610w, https:\u002F\u002Fwageindicator.org\u002Fmedia\u002Fimages\u002F7c0503f5--cta-landscape-2024.width-1220.png 1220w\" alt=\"cta-landscape-2024\">",{"title":127,"url":47,"description":127,"rel":78,"type":79},"Heatmap - 2024",{"type":129,"data":130},"document_block",{"title":131,"description":132,"download_url":133,"file_size":134,"document_id":135},"Labour Rights Index 2024","Download Labour Rights Index 2024 - 7 October 2024","https:\u002F\u002Fwageindicator.org\u002Fmedia\u002Fdocuments\u002Flri-2024-complete-3-oct-2024_compressed.pdf","8.1 MB",4124,{"type":137,"data":138},"information_block",{"title":139,"link":140,"variant":36,"text_content":148},"Labour Rights Index 2024 Press Release",[141],{"type":142,"page":143,"link_description":147},"page_link",{"id":144,"title":145,"short_title":7,"url":146},25037,"Press Release: Labour Rights Index 2024","\u002Fwork\u002Flabour-law\u002Findex\u002Fabout-us\u002Fpress-release-labour-rights-index-2024","Take a look at the Press Release","\u003Ch3>Latest edition of the Labour Rights Index shows improvements in labour law globally\u003C\u002Fh3>\u003Cp>\u003Cb>AMSTERDAM - The Netherlands - The 2024 Labour Rights Index, co-created by the WageIndicator Foundation and its affiliate, the Centre for Labour Research, will be launched on the 7th of October, 2024.\u003C\u002Fb>\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The third edition of the freely accessible Labour Rights Index builds on the previous versions released in 2020 and 2022, providing objective legal data on labour laws in 145 countries. This is up from 115 countries studied in the 2020 Index. As such, it is the only index that compares labour laws at this scale.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"type":150,"data":151},"faqs_block",{"title":152,"link":153,"link_description":157,"variant":68,"faq_items":158},"FAQs about the Labour Rights Index",{"id":154,"short_title":7,"title":155,"url":156},24579,"Frequently Asked Questions","\u002Fwork\u002Flabour-law\u002Findex\u002F2024\u002Ffrequently-asked-questions","Frequently Asked Questions about the Labour Rights Index",[159,166,172,178,184],{"question":160,"answer":161,"featured":165},"What is the Labour Rights Index?",[162],{"type":65,"data":163},{"content":164},"\u003Cp>The Labour Rights Index is a de jure index that measures the major aspects of employment regulation affecting a worker during the employment life cycle (10 indicators, 46 sub-indicators or components) in 145 countries. It limits itself to the presence or absence of relevant labour legislation only.\u003C\u002Fp>",true,{"question":167,"answer":168,"featured":165},"What is new in the 2024 edition of the Labour Rights Index?",[169],{"type":65,"data":170},{"content":171},"\u003Cp>It has 10 new countries, thus raising the number of countries from 135 in 2022 to 145;\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>It now includes more contextual indicators to help understand the scores in a country;\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>As before:\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cul>\u003Cli>It gives a complete legal basis for each component score, adding to the transparency on how each country was scored and rated;\u003C\u002Fli>\u003Cli>It shares relevant legislative trends since 2022, whether there has been a reform or if the legislation has remained the same;\u003C\u002Fli>\u003C\u002Ful>",{"question":173,"answer":174,"featured":165},"How is Labour Rights Index data collected?",[175],{"type":65,"data":176},{"content":177},"\u003Cp>The Labour Rights Index has 10 indicators and 46 sub-indicators, components or evaluation criteria. The scoring is based on an analysis of thousands of pages of labour legislation. Instead of engaging outside experts, the work is done solely by the WageIndicator Labour Law Office, i.e., the Centre for Labour Research (Pakistan), with support from WageIndicator country teams.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"question":179,"answer":180,"featured":165},"How are the Labour Rights Index questions chosen?",[181],{"type":65,"data":182},{"content":183},"\u003Cp>The Index looks at every aspect of the working lifespan of a worker and identifies the presence of labour rights, or the lack of it, in national legal systems worldwide. It covers 10 topics\u002Findicators and 46 components\u002Fevaluation criteria. All of these are based on substantive elements of the Decent Work Agenda. All these are grounded in UDHR, five UN Conventions, five ILO Declarations, 35 ILO Conventions, and four ILO Recommendations.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"question":185,"answer":186,"featured":165},"How are the questions scored?",[187],{"type":65,"data":188},{"content":189},"\u003Cp>The Labour Rights Index measures major aspects of employment regulation that affect a worker during the employment life cycle. The Index provides an overall score for each of the 145 countries covered. Forty-six (46) data points are obtained across 10 indicators of four to five binary questions, where each indicator represents an aspect of work which is considered important for achieving decent work.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The scores for each indicator are acquired by computing the unweighted average of the components under that indicator and measuring the result to 100. The final scores for the countries are then determined by taking each indicator's average, where 100 is the maximum score to achieve.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Certain assumptions for scoring exist in the methodology. The following assumptions are used by the Labour Rights Index. The worker in question:\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Col>\u003Cli>Is skilled;\u003C\u002Fli>\u003Cli>Is a minimum wage worker;\u003C\u002Fli>\u003Cli>Resides in the economy's most populous province\u002Fstate\u002Farea;\u003C\u002Fli>\u003Cli>Is a lawful citizen or a legal immigrant of the economy;\u003C\u002Fli>\u003Cli>Is a full-time employee with a permanent contract in a medium-sized enterprise with 60 employees;\u003C\u002Fli>\u003Cli>Has work experience of one year or more;\u003C\u002Fli>\u003Cli>Is assumed to be registered with the relevant social security institution and for a long enough time to accrue various monetary benefits (maternity, sickness, work injury, old age pension, survivors', and invalidity benefit); and\u003C\u002Fli>\u003Cli>Is assumed to have been working long enough to access leaves (maternity, paternity, paternal, sick, and annual leave) and various social benefits, including unemployment benefits\u003C\u002Fli>\u003C\u002Fol>",{"type":65,"data":191},{"content":192,"variant":36},"\u003Ch2>\u003Ca href=\"\u002Fwork\u002Flabour-law\u002Findex\u002F2024\u002F2024-the-index-in-text-explanation\">Who needs to use it and why?\u003C\u002Fa>\u003C\u002Fh2>\u003Cp>The Labour Rights Index is essentially directed at governments and international organisations, targeting trade union federations, multilateral organisations and national level organisations like government agencies. However, most of all, the Index can be used by workers. The importance of labour legislation cannot be overemphasised since well-drafted and inclusive laws are still a precondition for attaining decent work.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>National scores can be used as starting points of negotiations and reforms by civil society organisations. Ratings can be made prerequisites for international socio-economic agreements to ensure compliance with labour standards, similar to EU's GSP+ and USA’s GSP which require compliance in law and practice with certain labour standards in order to avail certain trade benefits through reduced tariffs. \u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The Labour Rights Index is also a useful benchmarking tool that can be used in stimulating policy debate as it can help in exposing challenges and identifying best practices. The Index provides meaningful input into policy discussions to improve labour market protections at the country level. \u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The Labour Rights Index is a repository of “objective and actionable” data on labour market regulation along with the best practices which can be used by countries worldwide to initiate necessary reforms. The comparative tool can also be used by Labour Ministries for finding the best practices within their own regions and around the world.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"type":137,"data":194},{"title":195,"link":196,"variant":68,"text_content":203},"What are its uses for workers?",[197],{"type":142,"page":198,"link_description":202},{"id":199,"title":200,"short_title":7,"url":201},21955,"Country Profiles - Labour Rights Index 2024","\u002Fwork\u002Flabour-law\u002Findex\u002F2024\u002Fcountry-profiles-labour-rights-index-2024","Country Profiles - Labour Rights Index","\u003Cp>The Labour Rights Index can work as an efficient aid for workers as well to gauge the labour rights protections in labour laws across countries. For migrants as well as posted workers, Labour Rights Index country profiles along with \u003Ca href=\"\u002Fwork\u002Flabour-law\u002Fcountries\">WageIndicator Decent Work Checks\u003C\u002Fa>, provide necessary information on workplace rights in both origin and destination countries. With increased internet use, availability of reliable and objective legal rights information is the first step towards compliance. The Labour Rights Index helps in achieving that step.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"type":65,"data":205},{"content":206,"variant":36},"\u003Ch2>The history of the Index\u003C\u002Fh2>\u003Cp>It was way back in 2009, when a Pakistani scholar from Cornell University reached me online. He identified himself as Iftikhar Ahmad, student of comparative labour law, and wanted to know why Pakistan was not among the 50-odd countries we were working in at the time. Well, simply because we have not yet found a suitable counterpart in the country, my standard answer must have been. 'Could he not qualify?', Iftikhar wrote back. He liked what we were doing, he said, and he also wanted to dedicate his working life to the interests of the common working man, woman and family. He was studying at Cornell and would return home to Islamabad, where he would restart working as a career civil servant for the Pakistani Government. So, indeed, why not, I mused. Let’s give it a try. And that is how we embarked on an adventurous and truly rewarding partnership that, 10 years later, has culminated into the first comprehensive Labour Rights Index with global outreach, covering 115 countries in 2020 - and counting. \u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Over the past decade, Iftikhar and I have had at least a thousand online conversations and - when travelling was still easy - at least a dozen meetings in Islamabad, Amsterdam, Geneva and some other places where and when our work brought us together. Iftikhar, a methodical and systematic thinker with a strong bent for research, had recognized that we, at WageIndicator, collected data on wages and labour rights in a highly structured way. Our common systems approach provided the framework and directed our mutual brain picking. This happy meeting of inquisitive minds is the second crucial strand in our enduring cooperation - next to our shared drive that the work we do should benefit the working man and woman of meagre means, who make up the public at large in any country.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>It so happened that the Decent Work Check, a nascent tool, that we at WageIndicator had been experimenting with (online and in print) in rural Africa and Central America, became the hub of our intense and intensifying exchanges. After much initial tampering, sculpting and a lot of scrutinizing, it today stands as the legal backbone of our pioneering Labour Rights Index 2020 and would continue to do so for its future editions. Moreover, our mature Decent Work Check proves to be of great value for national \u003Ca href=\"\u002Fwork\u002Flabour-law\u002Fcountries\">WageIndicator websites in 115 countries\u003C\u002Fa>, and also in WageIndicator projects at the factory and plantation level in \u003Ca href=\"\u002Fwhat-we-do\u002Fprojects\u002Fdecentworkcheck\u002Fcompany-overviews\u002Fgarment-factories-indonesia\">Indonesia\u003C\u002Fa>, \u003Ca href=\"\u002Fwhat-we-do\u002Fprojects\u002Fdecentworkcheck\u002Fcompany-overviews\u002Fgarment-factories-ethiopia\">Ethiopia\u003C\u002Fa> and \u003Ca href=\"\u002Fwhat-we-do\u002Fprojects\u002Fdecentworkcheck\u002Fcompany-overviews\u002Fflower-farms-uganda\">Uganda\u003C\u002Fa>, empowering (female) garment workers and flower growers.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>I look forward to our continued cooperation with Iftikhar and his team at the Centre for Labour Research, along the lines that have brought us - and many others - so much: professionally, intellectually and as friends.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Paulien Osse, Director WageIndicator Foundation (November 2020)\u003C\u002Fp>",{"text":208,"link":209},"Contact us",{"title":208,"url":210,"description":208,"rel":78,"type":79,"id":211},"\u002Fabout\u002Fcontact",24590,[213],{"id":43,"slug":21,"name":20},{"id":215,"first_name":216,"last_name":217,"email":218,"image":7,"function":7,"external":37},1,"Turftorr","Administrator","info@turftorr.nl",[220],{"id":215,"first_name":216,"last_name":217,"email":218,"image":7,"function":7,"external":37},[],[],"\u002Fwork\u002Fliving-wages\u002Fcontact-us","\u003Cp>Welcome to WageIndicator. 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