media use until Tuesday, October 29, 2013 at 00:01 GMT = Monday, October 28, 20:01 in Washington D.C. (GMT-4) employing workers datA
Difficulty of hiring Fixed-term contracts prohibited for permanent tasks? Maximum length of fixed-term contracts (months)a Minimum wage for a 19-yearold worker or an apprentice (US$/month)b 50-hour workweek allowed?c Premium for work on weekly rest day (% of hourly pay)d Dismissal due to redundancy allowed by law? Major restrictions on weekly holiday work?d Rigidity of hours
Difficulty of redundancy
Redundancy cost
Samoa San Marino So Tom and Prncipe Saudi Arabia Senegal Serbia Seychelles Sierra Leone Singapore Slovak Republic Slovenia Solomon Islands South Africa South Sudan Spain Sri Lanka St. Kitts and Nevis St. Lucia St. Vincent and the Grenadines No No No No Yes No 48 12 No limit No limit No limit No limit Yes No limit No No limit Yes 24 1,045.8 112.8 646.4 59.2 1,009.2 38.6 511.6 0.0 191.7 No 24 448.4 0.23 0.38 0.67 0.66 0.59 0.27 0.11 0.29 0.00 0.24 No No limit 0.0 0.00 Yes No limit 34.8 0.40 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No limit 330.8 0.24 Yes 6.0 5.0 6.0 6.0 6.0 6.0 6.0 6.0 5.5 5.5 7.0 6.0 6.0 Yes 12 190.5 0.30 Yes 6.0 Yes 24 72.4 0.45 Yes 6.0 38 26 0 15 0 20 50 0 0 0 25 0 0 0 0 No No limit 0.0 0.00 Yes 6.0 0 50 0 26 100 100 100 0 50 0 100 0 0 50 0 150 0 Yes 36 0.0 0.00 No 6.0 25 100 Yes 18 1,841.7 0.26 Yes 6.0 35 0 No No No No No No No No No No No Yes No Yes No No No No
No
No limit
171.7
0.36
Yes
6.0
No
10.0 26.0 26.0 20.7 24.3 20.0 21.0 21.3 10.7 25.0 21.0 15.0 15.0 23.3 22.0 14.0 14.0 21.0 19.3
Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
No Yes Yes No Yes No Yes Yes No Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No
No Yes Yes No Yes No Yes Yes No Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Yes
No
No
No
5.8
No
Yes
Yes
0.0
No
No
Yes
4.3
No
No
No
4.3
Yes
Yes
Yes
3.2
Yes
No
Yes
0.0
No
No
No
4.3
Yes
Yes
Yes
8.7
No
No
No
3.0
Yes
No
No
11.6
Yes
Yes
No
5.3
No
No
No
4.3
Yes
No
No
4.0
No
No
No
4.3
No
No
No
2.1
No
Yes
No
4.3
No
No
Yes
8.7
No
No
No
3.7
No
No
Yes
4.0
Severance pay for redundancy dismissal (weeks of salary)e Paid annual leave (working days)e Third-party notification if 9 workers are dismissed? Third-party notification if 1 worker is dismissed? Third-party approval if 9 workers are dismissed? Third-party approval if 1 worker is dismissed?
Retraining or reassignment?f
0.0
0.0
26.0
15.2
10.5
7.7
9.1
69.6
0.0
7.2
5.3
10.7
5.3
21.7
15.2
54.2
0.0
9.3
10.0