Employing Workers
Doing Business measures the regulation of employment. It specifically examines the difficulty of hiring, nonstandard work schedules and paid annual leave, and the costs and rules governing redundancy termination.The table below shows the main indicators. They include:
- Difficulty of hiring index: Applicability and maximum duration of fixed-term contracts and minimum wage for trainee or first-time employee.
- Rigidity of hours index: Scheduling of nonstandard work hours and annual paid leave.
- Difficulty of firing index: Notification and approval requirements for termination of a redundant worker or a group of redundant workers, obligation to reassign or retrain and priority rules for redundancy and reemployment.
- Rigidity of employment index: A simple average of the above three indices.
- Firing cost: Notice requirements, severance payments and penalties due when terminating a redundant worker, expressed in weeks of salary.
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