Worldwide Benefit & Employment Guidelines (WBEG)

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

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Understand country–specific benefits and employment guidelines across the world

Multinational employers face a significant challenge when setting effective employment and benefits standards for their employees. They 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 reliable 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.

Offering data of unparalleled quality and in–depth benefit updates for 63 countries, we present the 2010/2011 edition in five regional volumes, providing concise, reliable and easy–to–use information for the major economic regions of the world: the Americas; Asia; the Middle East & Africa; Central & Eastern Europe; and Western Europe. Your subscription also includes access to WBEG online and its comparators.

This is one of our most popular reports. Many of our multinational clients rely on it for timely, reliable benefits information. Order a set today for quick access to 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 dismemberment - 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.

• Our employment conditions comparator lets you compare two countries' specific employment provisions and employment contract features.
• Our statutory benefits comparator lets you compare two countries' statutorily required benefits and contributions.

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Countries covered

Americas
Modern global HR practices have been heavily influenced by benefits practices in the Americas. We report on these developments and trends in the WBEG, backed by in-depth, up-to-date legislative information. Our WBEG Americas volume covers:

Argentina Bolivia Brazil Canada

Chile Colombia Ecuador Mexico

Paraguay Peru United States Venezuela

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Asia
HR practitioners often struggle to find reliable, current benefits information for Asia because it is such a dynamic region. But with offices in 145 cities and 41 countries around the world, Mercer has access to experts who gather and interpret current, dependable benefits information annually for use in these reports. Our 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
Our WBEG Middle East and Africa volume covers:

Lebanon Morocco

South Africa United Arab Emirates

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Central and Eastern Europe
This region is transforming quickly as former Eastern Bloc countries move towards freemarket economies, causing employment contracts and demands on the labour force to change and evolve. Our 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 being incorporated into national law. Changing demographics and increased global competition are certain to keep these issues at the forefront of government policy making. Our 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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