Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina scores 2.52/6.0 on the OECD employment-protection strictness index.
Bosnia and Herzegovina scores 2.52/6.0 on the OECD employment-protection index - above the OECD average of about 2.0.
#30/101 · OECD 2.52/6 · B-READY 69.7. World Bank B-READY 2025 · OECD EPL.
Employment Protection Composite
One composite verdict from 2 of 3 independent sources, each percentile-benchmarked against every rated country. A missing source never lowers the score -- its weight redistributes to the sources this country actually has.
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What the Data Shows for Bosnia and Herzegovina
Europe. Covered by 2/3 tracked datasets. B-READY 2025 labor score: 69.7/100, moderate. The OECD EPL overall strictness index is 2.52/6.0, where higher values indicate stricter rules on individual and collective dismissal.
Dismissal process: ~3.9 weeks, middling. No 3rd-party approval required for individual dismissal.
Labor disputes here resolve relatively quickly, averaging 0.0 months through formal channels. A moderate share of firms, 7.5% in the World Bank's survey, report experiencing a labor dispute. Employer social contributions add a comparatively light cost layer, 0.0% of salary. 6 peer comparisons below.
Labor Regulation Quality
Source: World Bank Business Ready 2025 Pillar scores are 0-100 (higher = better regulation quality)
Compare Bosnia and Herzegovina With...
Countries with similar labor-regulation profiles
Two peer sets for Bosnia and Herzegovina on metrics that vary across the full country corpus, not regional containment. The nearest EPLex block below stays on the ILO composite; these neighborhoods use B-READY, OECD, or statutory-duration axes.
Similar B-READY labor score
Nearest countries by World Bank B-READY labor regulation (69.7/100 here).
Similar OECD EPL strictness
Nearest countries by OECD employment-protection index (2.52/6 here).
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Primary sources: ILO EPLex, World Bank B-READY, OECD EPL.
PlainEmploy is rendered directly from the OECD Employment Protection Legislation indicators, the ILO EPLex database, and the World Bank B-READY labor pillar, no number is typed in by an editor. This country's composite scores and comparisons are computed directly from the underlying OECD/EPLex/B-READY tables, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 2026-08-30.