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Summary indicators of Employment protection Legislation (EPL) in Latin America and the Caribbean: 2013

By Social Protection and Labor Markets Division (VPS/SCL/SPL)

The OECD/IDB indicators of employment protection legislation measure the procedures and costs involved in dismissing individuals or groups of workers and the procedures involved in hiring workers on fixed-term or temporary work agency contracts. The indicators have been compiled using IDB and OECD own reading of statutory laws, collective bargaining agreements and case law. The OECD Secretariat and the IDB equally share the responsibility of the interpretation of LAC countries’ statutory laws, collective bargaining agreements and case law. This database constitutes the first systematic approach to review and compare employment protection regulations in LAC, in a way that is also comparable with countries around the world.

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Identifier https://doi.org/10.60966/7ux8upud
License Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial–NoDerivs 3.0 IGO
Citation

Inter-American Development Bank;Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2015, Summary indicators of Employment protection Legislation (EPL) in Latin America and the Caribbean: 2013, IDB Open Data, https://doi.org/10.60966/7ux8upud
Issued date 2015-11-13
Modified date 2025-04-11
Tags/Keywords Caribbean · Employment · Jobs · Latin America · Layoffs · Temporary Work
Language English
Temporal coverage 2013-2013
Geographic coverage
Argentina
Bahamas
Barbados
Bolivia
Brazil
Chile
Colombia
Costa Rica
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
El Salvador
Guatemala
Honduras
Jamaica
Mexico
Nicaragua
Panama
Paraguay
Peru
Uruguay
Venezuela
Regional coverage Latin America and the Caribbean
Publisher
Inter-American Development Bank
Author
Inter-American Development Bank
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Data collection type Administrative Data
Statistical type Cross-sectional Data
Data structure Structured Data
Data notes

For each country, Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) is described along 21 basic items which can be classified in three main areas: (i) protection of regular workers against individual dismissal; (ii) regulation of temporary forms of employment; and (iii) additional, specific requirements for collective dismissals. For each item and country, legislation, case law, and collective agreements –in force at a specific date- are reviewed and used to assign values on a scale of 0 (less strict regulation) to 6 (more strict regulation). In this case, the date is December 31st, 2013.

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