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Chile

An ILO EPLex composite of 0.357 places Chile among moderate-protection jurisdictions on the 0-1 scale.

ILO EPLex OECD EPL
0.357 ILO EPLex composite (0โ€“1) Moderate protection
OECD EPL โ†’

Chile's statutory protection against unfair dismissal is moderate - an ILO EPLex composite of 0.357 on the 0โ€“1 scale, more flexible than 73% of the 95 rated countries.

EPLex 0.357 ยท #70/95 ยท OECD 2.34/6. ILO EPLex ยท OECD EPL.

Employment Protection Composite

F 39/100

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.

ILO EPLex F
0.36
Statutory dismissal-protection composite (0-1 scale)
World Bank B-READY N/A
N/A
Labor-market regulatory quality
OECD EPL C-
2.34
Employment protection legislation strictness (0-6 scale)

Benchmarked against p10-p90 of every country rated by that source. See our methodology for the exact benchmark table and weights.

Where Chile sits on ILO EPLex protection

Every rated country's dismissal-protection composite, 95 countries

0.36 27th percentile higher than 27% of 95 rated countries

0.00โ€“0.10: 0 rated countries (0%). Below this entry. 0.10โ€“0.20: 1 rated countries (1%). Below this entry. 0.20โ€“0.30: 8 rated countries (8%). Below this entry. 0.30โ€“0.40: 26 rated countries (27%). This entry sits in this band. 0.40โ€“0.50: 39 rated countries (41%). Above this entry. 0.50โ€“0.60: 15 rated countries (16%). Above this entry. 0.60โ€“0.70: 6 rated countries (6%). Above this entry. 0.70โ€“0.80: 0 rated countries (0%). Above this entry. 0.80โ€“0.90: 0 rated countries (0%). Above this entry. 0.90โ€“1.00: 0 rated countries (0%). Above this entry. Chile 0.00 1.00 every rated country, bucketed by value

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Source ILO EPLex ยท 2018

What the Data Shows for Chile

Americas. Covered by 2/3 tracked datasets. As an OECD member, it is included in the OECD's long-running historical EPL series. The most recent ILO EPLex composite score is 0.357 out of 1.0 (2018), summarizing statutory termination rules into a single index. The OECD EPL overall strictness index is 2.34/6.0, where higher values indicate stricter rules on individual and collective dismissal.

Statutory notice periods in Chile scale with tenure across 7 tiers, reaching 1 month at 20 years of service. Severance pay can reach 11 months of salary at 20 years, while redundancy-specific pay is 11 months. The maximum probation period allowed by law is 25 months, defining how long employers can assess workers under reduced protection.

The EPLex redress/reinstatement sub-indicator is 0.375/1.0, reflecting how strong remedies are when a dismissal is ruled unlawful. Historically, Chile's OECD EPL score moved from 2.67 in 2008 to 2.34 in 2019, showing the direction of reform over time. 6 peer comparisons below.

ILO EPLex (2018)
0.357
out of 1.0 ยท Rank #70
B-READY 2025
-
No data available
OECD EPL
2.34
out of 6.0 ยท Rank #34
ILO EPLex

Termination Protection Breakdown (2018)

Prohibited Grounds for Dismissal
0.500
Probation Period
0.000
Procedural Requirements
0.500
Notice Periods
0.207
Severance Pay
0.207
Redundancy Pay
0.301
Redress / Reinstatement
0.375

Scale: 0 = no protection · 1 = maximum protection. Source: ILO EPLex 2018.

Max probation period: 25 months

Notice Periods by Tenure

Tenure Notice Period
6 months 1 month
9 months 1 month
2 years 1 month
4 years 1 month
5 years 1 month
10 years 1 month
20 years 1 month

Source: ILO EPLex Notice period is the legally mandated advance notice before termination

Severance and Redundancy Pay by Tenure

Tenure Severance Redundancy
6 months 0 mo 0 mo
9 months 0 mo 0 mo
2 years 2 mo 2 mo
4 years 4 mo 4 mo
5 years 5 mo 5 mo
10 years 10 mo 10 mo
20 years 11 mo 11 mo

Values in salary-months. Source: ILO EPLex. Severance = individual dismissal. Redundancy = collective/economic dismissal.

OECD EPL

Historical Protection Score

Year Overall Score Visual
2008 2.67
2009 2.67
2010 2.67
2011 2.67
2012 2.67
2013 2.34
2014 2.34
2015 2.34
2016 2.34
2017 2.34
2018 2.34
2019 2.34

Scale: 0-6 (higher = more protective). Source: OECD Employment Protection Legislation database.

Compare Chile With...

๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ฏ Tajikistan ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Czech Republic ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฉ Indonesia ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ฒ Turkmenistan ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ช Montenegro ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ญ Philippines

Countries with similar labor-regulation profiles

Two peer sets for Chile 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.

Nearest EPLex peers

Closest ILO EPLex composite scores to Chile (0.357), not the global top of the list.

๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ฌ Antigua and Barbuda 0.358 ยท ฮ” 0.001 ๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ต Japan 0.356 ยท ฮ” 0.001 ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ฉ Bangladesh 0.354 ยท ฮ” 0.003 ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡พ Cyprus 0.352 ยท ฮ” 0.005

Read with this Chile page

Understanding EPL Scores How Chile's 2/3 source mix maps onto EPLex, OECD, and B-READY. Termination Laws by Country Notice, severance, and dismissal rules that feed Chile's EPLex composite. Reading Employment Statistics How to read OECD EPL strictness next to Chile's historical series.

Read with this Chile roster

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Data sourced from official OECD, ILO, and World Bank employment-protection datasets. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainEmploy

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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.