OECD Employment Protection
OECD EPL panel for oecd employment protection - OECD composite employment protection legislation index covering regular, temporary, and collective dismissal.
OECD EPL in one line
Indonesia tops 72 OECD reporters at 4.08, with the middle country at 2.33.
- 4.08
- #1 - Indonesia
- 2.33
- global median
- 3.23
- high-low spread
- 72
- mid coverage
Source: OECD. Scale 0-6.
What OECD EPL shows on OECD Employment Protection
This board sorts 72 countries by oecd employment protection from OECD (scale 0-6, 2025 cycle). OECD EPL is a multi-year panel (from 1990) that scores how hard it is to dismiss workers and use temporary contracts across member economies. Ranks are unique (alphabetical tie-break), so every country has a distinct slot even when raw values match.
Mean 2.27 vs median 2.33 - the pack sits evenly across 72 reporters. Top three: Indonesia (4.08), Venezuela (3.50), Kazakhstan (3.32). Bottom three: Costa Rica (0.85), Uruguay (0.98), Nicaragua (1.24). High-low spread is 3.23 (4.8× top/bottom).
Higher OECD EPL values mean stricter employment protection on the OECD scale, open a country row for regular/temporary/collective history behind this composite.
Source: OECD. Scale: 0-6. Unique ranks (alphabetical tie-break). Retrieved and formatted by PlainEmploy. See methodology.