Labour Rights Index
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Why did we want this Labour Rights Index?
The Labour Rights Index is a comparative tool, an international qualification standard, which allows its users to compare labour legislation around the world. 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.
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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. The Labour Rights Index covers 10 topics/indicators 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. The 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.
About the Labour Rights IndexWhat 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.
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Download Labour Rights Index 2024 - 7 October 2024
Labour Rights Index 2024 Press Release
Take a look at the Press ReleaseLatest edition of the Labour Rights Index shows improvements in labour law globally
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.
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.
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