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

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.

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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.

To purchase individual country reports select the regional link from the list above.

* 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.