Hundreds of thousands of employees were laid off in 2022 in sweeping job cuts that affected nearly every industry. Losing a job is challenging as is, but could the place an employee calls home make it even harder?
To provide some insight into which locations are the
From how many tenured years a country or territory requires employees to have in order to receive severance pay, to whether or not they're able to use unused paid leave before they go, many factors go into what makes a layoff more manageable for workers.
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Puerto Rico and the U.S. came in
This compares to Sierra Leone and Egypt, which earned a layoff score of 8.80 and 7.75 out of 10, respectively. Sierra Leone exercises six out of nine redundancy laws, and employees are guaranteed at least a 13-week notice period before being laid off, and employees with a 10-year tenure can secure an up to 132-week severance pay package. Egypt offers 4.3 weeks guaranteed severance pay for employees with only one year of tenure, all the way to 54.2 weeks for those with a decade or more of tenure.
See what other locations made Lensa's list of the