Labour Rights Index
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Acknowledgements - Teamwork

Acknowledgements

The WageIndicator Foundation and the Centre for Labour Research co-produced the first edition of the Labour Rights Index in 2020. This is the second edition of the Index with 135 countries.
WageIndicator Foundation, a Dutch non-profit established in 2001, works towards increased transparency in labour markets by providing access to minimum wages, living wages, and labour rights information.

The Centre for Labour Research, an independent non-profit registered in Pakistan, has a niche speciality in comparative labour research. Other than advising the federal and provincial government in Pakistan, the Centre is the WageIndicator’s Global Labour Law Office and maintains Labour Law Database and Minimum Wages Database.

As explained in the first version, the Labour Rights Index is the culmination of more than 13 years of comparative labour law work by Iftikhar Ahmad[1]
, who has spearheaded this report. The work has benefited from valuable inputs from the WageIndicator Foundation.

The team gratefully acknowledges WageIndicator for their input and continuous support. Paulien Osse, Dirk Dragstra and Kea Tijdens reviewed the report and made valuable suggestions. In addition, feedback from Professor Rob van Tulder and Willy Wagenmans (WageIndicator Board), Fiona Dragstra (Director WageIndicator), Daniela Ceccon ((Director Data, WageIndicator), Professor Evert Verhulp (University of Amsterdam), Professor Beryl ter Haar (University of Leiden), Professor Elena Sychenko (University of Bologna) and Asghar Jameel (Centre for Labour Research Board) helped refine the Index and its methodology.

We are also grateful to all the organisations from which we source the key facts that are part of the country profiles. These include the World Bank, the International Labour Organization and the WageIndicator Foundation.

The scoring for country profiles under different indicators, though essentially hinged on the Decent Work Checks, have also been confirmed from other indices/reports, including the Women, Business and Law Database (World Bank), International Social Security Association (ISSA) Country Profiles, various ILO databases, the US Department of State’s Country Reports on Human Rights Practices (USDOS CRHRP), the US ILAB Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labour, the ITUC Global Rights Index and the Centre for Global Workers’ Rights. Our special thanks and appreciation go to the International Labour Organization, whose instruments (conventions and recommendations) are part of our scoring methodology: the country scoring has been based on these instruments as much as possible. The comments and observations of the ILO supervisory body, the Committee of Experts on Application of Conventions and Recommendations (CEACR), were considered while scoring trade union questions. Similarly, the US Department of State’s Country Reports on Human Rights Practices has also been used for scoring the trade union questions.

Special thanks are due to the team members at the Centre for Labour Research who have worked long hours for months to produce this work.
Iftikhar Ahmad has led the legal research, the methodology behind the Index, the scoring of countries and the drafting of the report. Shanza Sohail and Heena Tariq, at the Centre for Labour Research have assisted in the drafting of this report. Tasmeena Tahir has been involved in the whole process, ranging from the collection of contextual indicators to legal research and reviewing the legal basis for countries.

Scoring is done by the WageIndicator/Centre for Labour Research team comprising Iftikhar Ahmad, Shanza Sohail, Tasmeena Tahir, and Heena Tariq. Ayesha Kiran and Ayesha Mir have supported the work by maintaining the Minimum Wages Database and Labour Rights Database, respectively. Nasir Zaman, Rida Mukhtar and Sehrish Irfan have contributed to legal research, scoring and reviewing the legal basis. Sobia Ahmad reviewed the scores and did a quality check of the data. Our former team members, Asma Effendi, Rabia Bano and Ahad Raza Chohan, also need to be acknowledged for being part of the journey.

The report and country profiles are designed by Heena Tariq and Seemab Haider. Rogério Marques Benedito Júnior has created informative video about the Labour Rights Index 2022. The Labour Rights Index heat map has been developed by Seemab Haider. Special thanks to Paulien Osse and Gunjan Pandya for bringing the heat map and country profiles online. The Index, heat map, and country profiles are available on https://labourrightsindex.org.

Team behind the Index

Iftikhar Ahmad (Team Lead)

CORE TEAM
(Centre for Labour Research/WageIndicator)

  • Shanza Sohail
  • Tasmeena Tahir
  • Heena Tariq
  • Ayesha Kiran
  • Ayesha Mir
  • Sehrish Irfan
  • Seemab Haider
  • Nasir Zaman
  • Rida Mukhtar

TECHNICAL SUPPORT TEAM
(WageIndicator Foundation)

  • Paulien Osse
  • Kea Tijdens
  • Fiona Dragstra
  • Daniela Ceccon
  • Marta Kahancová
  • Rupa Korde
  • Niels Peuchen
  • Rogério Júnior
  • Shantanu Kishwar
  • Vasudha Ghai
  • Gunjan Pandya

COUNTRY LEVEL CONTRIBUTORS
(WageIndicator Foundation)

Albania

  • Elvisa Drishti

Argentina (and Latin America)

  • Lorena Ponce De Leon, Mariana Robin

Bangladesh

  • Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies

Belgium

  • Dirk Dragstra

Brazil, Portugal and Angola

  • Ludmilla Caminha Barros, Rogério Júnior

Burundi (and French Africa)

  • Liberat Bigirimana

Egypt

  • Hossam Hussein, Rana Medhat

Ethiopia

  • Eyuel Mekonnen, Gashaw Tesfa

Greece

  • Stefani Kostagianni

Hungary

  • Szilvia Borbély

India

  • Rupa Korde

Indonesia

  • Nadia Pralitasari, Dela Feby

Italy

  • Daniela Ceccon

Bosnia and Herzegovina

  • Nermin Oruc

Malaysia

  • Nor Farah Ashikin binti Abdul Rahim

Mexico

  • Angelica Flores

Mozambique and Cape Verde

  • Egidio G. Vaz Raposo, Rogério Júnior

Netherlands

  • Leontine Bijleveld, Fiona Dragstra, Niels Peuchen

Pakistan

  • Centre for Labour Research

Russia (plus Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine)

  • Elena Golovko

South Africa (Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Sudan, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe)

  • Karen Rutter

Spain

  • Miquel Lóriz Toro

Tanzania

  • Oscar Mkude

Uganda

  • Birabwa Maria Namukusa, Nadera Saphina

Vietnam

  • Thuonghien Dong
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