Employing workers, redundancy (weeks of wages) - Doing business - Development outcomes - African Development Indicators



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The firing cost indicator measures the cost of advance notice requirements, severance payments and penalties due when terminating a redundant worker, expressed in weeks of salary. If the firing cost adds up to 8 or fewer weeks of salary, a score of 0 is assigned for the purposes of calculating the aggregate ease of doing business ranking. If the cost adds up to more than 8 weeks of salary, the score is the number of weeks. One month is recorded as 4 and 1/3 weeks. In Mauritius, for example, an employer is required to give 3 months’ notice before a redundancy termination, and the severance pay for a worker with 20 years of service equals 5 months of wages. No penalty is levied. Altogether, the employer pays the equivalent of 35 weeks of salary to dismiss the worker. For more information, visit http://www.doingbusiness.org/MethodologySurveys/. Source: World Bank, Doing Business project (http://www.doingbusiness.org/).
Employing workers, redundancy (weeks of wages) - Doing business - Development outcomes - African Development Indicators (2009)

Rank

Country

Value

1Zimbabwe446
2Sierra Leone189
3Zambia178
4Ghana178
5Mozambique134
6Equatorial Guinea133
7Egypt132
8Sudan118
9Comoros100
10Cape Verde93
11Sao Tome and Principe91
12Botswana90
13Guinea-Bissau87
14Morocco85
15Liberia84
16Malawi84
17Sub-Saharan Africa excluding South Africa and Nigeria69.40
18Eritrea69
19Sub-Saharan Africa excluding South Africa68.98
20Sub-Saharan Africa68.02
21Africa67.61
22North Africa62.75
23Angola58
24Djibouti56
25Swaziland53
26Nigeria50
27Ivory Coast49
28Kenya47
29Lesotho44
30Gabon43
31Ethiopia40
32Seychelles39
33Senegal38
34Benin36
35Chad36
36Togo36
37Mauritius35
38Niger35
39Burkina Faso34
40Cameroon33
41Republic of the Congo33
42Mauritania31
43Mali31
44Democratic Republic of the Congo31
45Madagascar30
46Burundi26
47Gambia26
48Guinea26
49Rwanda26
50Namibia24
51South Africa24
52Central African Republic22
53Tanzania18
54Algeria17
55Tunisia17
56Uganda13
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