Worldwide Benefit & Employment Guidelines (WBEG)

Mercer's Authoritative Reference Source for Employment Conditions, Statutory Benefits and Typical Benefit Packages

2009 Edition

What benefits do employers typically provide in different countries? How do they compare with those offered by employers in other countries? How will the latest employment law changes in Western Europe affect your business? Are employment contract requirements in Brazil different from those in France? What do social security contributions cost an employer in Mexico? How do statutory sickness benefits vary from one global region to another?

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Contents	WBEG online	View WBEG Sample
Americas	Asia	Central & Eastern Europe
Western Europe	Middle East & Africa

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Understand worldwide benefits and employment guidelines across the world

To design effective employment and benefits guidelines for your employees, you need quick access to current, reliable information on worldwide employment conditions, statutory employee benefits and typical employer benefit practices. Because the laws and regulations governing these benefits change constantly, tracking such information can be time consuming and expensive.

Mercer’s Worldwide Benefits and Employment Guidelines (WBEG) offers the full spectrum of global information on benefits guidelines at your fingertips. With its extensive market practice information, this report is an authoritative source on mandatory and private benefit practices, as well as statutory regulations around the world. Recent and pending regulatory changes help employers manage changes in benefits across boundaries.

Offering data of unparalleled quality and in-depth benefit updates for 64 countries, the 2009 edition is available in five regional volumes, providing concise, reliable and easy-to-use information for the major economic regions of the world – the Americas, Asia, Central & Eastern Europe, Western Europe and Middle East & Africa. Buying any volume also gives you access to WBEG online and its comparators.

This is one of our most popular reports. Order a set today for quick access to reliable worldwide information on employment conditions and typical employer benefit practices.

For each country, our WBEG report includes:

Country Overview Summary of Contributions Legislative Updates Trends Statutory Benefits Social security system Retirement Death Disability (short- and long-term) Medical and dental Maternity Unemployment Social Typical Benefits Practice Retirement Benefits - Defined benefit plans - Defined contribution plans Death Accidental death and disability Business travel Disability (short- and long-term) Medical and dental Flexible benefits Perquisites and allowances

Employment Conditions Severance conditions and termination indemnities - Individual termination - Collective dismissal Working Time - Working hours - Overtime - Night work - Rest periods - Annual vacation and leave Conditions of entry and residence - Conditions of entry - Employment of expatriates Employment contracts - Types of Contracts - Invalid Contracts - Rights and duties Occupational health and safety - Measures of Occupational Health & Safety - Measuring health - Rules and implementation Industrial Relations - Social partners - Collective agreements - Industrial action

WBEG online

WBEG subscription includes access to WBEG online and its comparators, allowing you to instantly compare specific categories of benefits between countries.

• Employment conditions - lets you compare specific employment provisions and employment contract features between countries.
• Statutory benefits comparator lets you compare statutorily required benefits and contributions between countries.

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Americas
Modern global HR practices have been heavily influenced by benefits practices in the Americas. These developments and latest trends are reported in Mercer’s WBEG, backed by in-depth, up-to-date legislative information. The WBEG Americas volume covers:

Argentina Bolivia Brazil Canada

Chile Colombia Ecuador Mexico

Paraguay Peru United States Venezuela

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Asia

Asia is often a difficult region to find reliable and current data for. However, with offices in 145 cities and 41 countries around the world, Mercer experts gather and interpret current, reliable benefits information annually for use in these reports. The WBEG Asia volume covers:

Australia China Hong Kong India Indonesia

Japan Malaysia New Zealand Pakistan Philippines

Singapore South Korea Taiwan Thailand Vietnam

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Middle East and Africa

The WBEG Middle East and Africa volume covers:

Israel Lebanon Morocco

South Africa United Arab Emirates

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Central and Eastern Europe

This region is undergoing rapid change as former Eastern Bloc countries move towards freemarket economies, causing employment contracts and demands on the labour force to change and evolve. The WBEG Central and Eastern Europe volume covers:

Croatia Czech Republic Hungary Latvia Lithuania

Poland Romania Russia Serbia

Slovakia Slovenia Turkey Ukraine

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Western Europe

Benefits provision and employment law have been major issues in this region for some time, especially as EU regulations are incorporated into national law. Changing demographics, increasing imigration and intensifying global competition are certain to keep these issues at the forefront of government policy making. The WBEG Western Europe volume covers:

Austria Belgium Cyprus Denmark Finland France Germany

Greece Ireland Italy Luxembourg Malta Netherlands

Norway Portugal Spain Sweden Switzerland United Kingdom

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