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Labour Rights Index
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 * Heatmap 2022
   * 2022 - The Index in Text - Explanation
   * Country Profiles - Labour Rights Index 2022
   * Frequently Asked Questions
 * Heatmap 2020
   * 2020 - Comparison per Topic & Countries - Visual
   * 2020 - The Index in Text - Explanation
     * Labour Rights Index 2020 - Full Text
   * Country Profiles - Labour Rights Index 2020




LABOUR RIGHTS INDEX


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 135 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. 


LABOUR RIGHTS INDEX COMPARISON BY TOPIC

The Heatmap 2022 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.

1. Fair Wages
2. Decent Working Hours
3. Employment Security
4. Family Responsibilities
5. Maternity at Work
6. Safe Work
7. Social Security
8. Fair Treatment
9. Child and Forced Labour
10. Trade Union

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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 135
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 13 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.


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. 


LABOUR RIGHTS INDEX 2022

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LABOUR RIGHTS INDEX 2022 PRESS RELEASE

Amsterdam, the Netherlands - The 2022 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, 2022. The 2022 edition of the freely
accessible Labour Rights Index builds on the previous version released in 2020
and provides objective legal data on the labour market in 135 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.

The Labour Rights Index evaluates countries along ten indicators - fair wages,
decent work hours, employment security, family responsibilities, maternity at
work, safe work, social security, fair treatment, child and forced labour, and
trade unions. These indicators (and 46 sub-indicators) are derived from the
Decent Work Agenda of the United Nations. Based on their scores, countries are
graded on a six-point scale ranging from a “Total Lack of Decent Work” to
“Decent Work”.

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WHO NEEDS TO USE IT AND WHY?

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.

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. 

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. 

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.


WHAT ARE ITS USES FOR WORKERS?

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 WageIndicator Decent Work Checks, 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.


FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT THE LABOUR RIGHTS INDEX




RELATED LINKS

 * Labour Rights Index 2022 Report
 * Full Text of the Index 2022
 * Full Text of the Index 2020
 * 135 Country Profiles - Graphs - 2022
 * 115 Country Profiles - Graphs - 2020
 * All legal text behind the Index - 2022
 * All Minimum Wages Related - 2022
 * The Team Behind The Index - 2022


PRESS RELEASE - LEADING EMPLOYMENT LAWYER AND SENATOR MIRJAM DE BLÉCOURT
RECEIVES THE NEW LABOUR RIGHTS INDEX 2020 OF THE WAGEINDICATOR FOUNDATION

AMSTERDAM - The Netherlands – Leading Labour & Employment lawyer Mirjam de
Blécourt of international law firm Baker McKenzie and Senator of the Dutch
Parliament receives the new Labour Rights Index 2020 at the first official
 presentation. The freely accessible Index is co-created by the WageIndicator
Foundation and its affiliate Centre for Labour Research. The detailed
market Index provides objective legal data of the labour market in 115
countries. It is the first comprehensive and legally recognized Index and meant
to function as the new comparative international qualification standard. “The
assumption that only rich countries are the best-performing is a
misunderstanding. And that gives hope .” According to Paulien Osse, Director of
WageIndicator Foundation.


THE HISTORY OF THE INDEX

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. 

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.

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 WageIndicator websites in
115 countries, and also in WageIndicator projects at the factory and plantation
level in Indonesia, Ethiopia and Uganda, empowering (female) garment workers and
flower growers.

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.

Paulien Osse, Director WageIndicator Foundation     (November 2020)

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