Library Guides: International Labour Law: Comparative Tools

Doing business in...practical employment law country comparison tools

The following practical comparative tools/guides are aimed at those doing business in foreign jurisdictions. They do not include every country. The databases provide brief but useful information about the employment laws of the jurisdictions covered.

Lexology
Lexology Resources > Browse By - Browse by jurisdictions, work areas and topics.

This website covers about 170 jurisdictions and includes articles from law firms to keep readers up to date with global legal and regulatory news. The University of Melbourne does not hold an account with the service but the site can be used to look at articles from around the world on a range of topics including Employee Benefits and Pensions and Employment and Labor.

Employment and Employee Benefits Guide
The open-access version of this Thomson Reuters guide covers about 35 countries. It provides practical overviews on topical cross-border employment and employee benefits issues, and country-specific Q&As on employment law and practice, such as information on contractual and implied terms of employment, minimum wages, discrimination and harassment, consequences of business transfers, and taxation.
International Comparative Legal Guides (ICLG)
International Comparative Legal Studies > Employment & Labour Law (open access)

This tool covers about 60 countries. It can be used to look at the legal situation in one country or compare two or more jurisdictions on specific employment topics.
To look at one jurisdiction only, select a country under the Jurisdiction Chapters heading (free access to read online)
Click on the Compare Jurisdictions button to use the Comparison tool. Then select two or more jurisdictions, and then select the specific questions you want to compare.