Mercer's Authoritative Reference Source for Employment Conditions, Statutory Benefits and Typical Benefit Packages - 2009 edition available now!

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.

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. Buyers also receive 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.

Key features

• More comprehensive, user-friendly tables so users can quickly compare data across countries
• The most recent practice and legislative updates for each country

Each WBEG report includes the following information, country by country:

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 specific employment provisions and employment contract features between countries.
• Our Statutory Benefits Comparator - lets you to compare statutory benefits and mandatory contributions between countries.

More information on Global HRMonitor® and its tools

Countries included

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:

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:

Central & 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:

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:

Middle East & Africa

The WBEG Middle East & Africa volume covers the following countries:

Pricing information

Mercer's 2009 edition of Worldwide Benefit & Employment Guidelines is available in five regional volumes - Americas, Asia, Central and Eastern Europe,Western Europe, and Middle East and Africa. The volumes are available for purchase individually or as a set; each includes access to WBEG online and its comparators.

Pricing by Individual Countries: The 2009 volumes are available for purchase individually in PDF format for USD 330 / EUR 240 / CAD 375 / AUD 415 / NZD 525 each.

* All prices are subject to additional shipping charges and applicable taxes.

Note:  In Australia and Canada your purchase confirmation will show the estimated converted price in local currency, however you will be invoiced at the converted USD price at the time of purchase. Swiss companies will be invoiced in CHF based on the exchange rate at the time of the purchase.