The most comprehensive and reliable resource for managing your global workforce - 2008/2009 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 unparalleled quality and depth of data and analysis, and covering more than 65 countries, the 2008/2009 edition of WBEG is available in five regional volumes providing concise, reliable and easy-to-use information for the major economic regions of the world –  Americas, Asia, Central & Eastern Europe, Western Europe, and Middle East & Africa. Buyers also receive access to WBEG online and its comparators.

As part of our continual efforts to meet - and exceed - our users' needs, we relied on a global network of senior Mercer experts in more than 60 countries to produce this year's WBEG report. These experts peer reviewed the content not only in their home countries but also regionally and globally.

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

When you buy the WBEG (any volume or the whole set), you get 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:

Pricing information

Mercer's 2007/2008 edition of Worldwide Benefit & Employment Guidelines are available for purchase individually or as a set; each includes access to WBEG online and its comparators.

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

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.