Agency workers have the right to equal treatment

Quick info
Data type	Numeric
Scale	Metric
Value labels	1 = the legal system recognises a right to equal treatment in respect of terms and conditions of employment in general 0.5 = the legal system recognises a more limited right to equal treatment (for example, in respect of antidiscrimination law) 0 = neither of the above quasi-metric scale; further gradations between 0 and 1 reflect changes in the strength of law
Technical name	labor_awork_et
Category	Labour and labour market
Label	Agency workers have the right to equal treatment
Related indicators	Dismissing costs for part-time workers is proportional Fixed-term contracts are allowed only for limited duration Part-time workers have the right to equal treatment Maximum duration of fixed-term contracts Agency work is prohibited or strictly controlled Fixed-term workers have the right to equal treatment

This CBR-LRI indicator measures if the legal system recognises a right to equal treatment for agency workers, in relation to permanent workers of the user undertaking, in respect of terms and conditions of employment in general.

Coding rules

The CBR-LRI is a leximetric dataset on employment protection. It quantifies the strength of protection expressed in labour law and functional equivalents such as administrative regulation and collective agreements (see Adams et al. 2017). The scale ranges from "0" to "1" where "0" corresponds to the legal system recognising a right to equal treatment and "1" to the legal system recognising neither the right to equal treatment nor a more limited right to equal treatment. For country-specific information see Adams, Bishop and Deakin (2016).

Bibliographic info

Citation:

• Adams, Zoe, Parisa Bastani, Louise Bishop, and Simon Deakin. 2017. "The CBR-LRI Dataset: Methods, Properties and Potential of Leximetric Coding of Labour Law." International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations 33 (1): 59–91.http://kluwerlawonline.com/abstract.php?area=Journals&id=IJCL2017004

Related publications:

• Adams, Zoe, Louise Bishop, and Simon Deakin. 2016. CBR Labour Regulation Index (Dataset of 117 Countries). Cambridge: Centre for Business Research. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/bitstream/handle/1810/263766/CBR_LRI_Dataset_Codebook_Methodology_2017_pdf.pdf?sequence=16&isAllowed=y
• Deakin, Simon, Jonas Malmberg, and Prabirjit Sarkar. 2014. "How do labour laws affect unemployment and the labour share of national income? The experience of six OECD countries, 1970-2010". International Labour Review 153 (1): 1-27. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/j.1564-913X.2014.00195.x

Misc

Project manager(s): Karolin Meyer, Jean-Yves Gerlitz, Andrea Schäfer

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Sources

Deakin, Simon, John Armour, and Mathias Siems. 2017. "CBR Leximetric Datasets [updated] [Dataset]". https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.9130