Click on the left-hand side bar “Browse by Country”. Select the country or type of legislation to be viewed. After selecting the country that you wish to view, a list showing the short descriptive titles of all of the available legislation will appear on the right-hand side of the screen. Select the legislation to be reviewed by clicking on the title.
Browsing by subject
Select one of the four subject areas that you wish to explore. A drop down list will appear with all the sub-headings under the selected subject. To see which countries have provisions under a particular heading, select the heading. A list of countries with the relevant section and title of the legislation is listed. Select the provision to be viewed to see the full text.
Free Text Search
In addition to the four subject areas available under “Browsing by subject”, it is possible to search the entire database by clicking on the left-hand side bar “Search”. The search box will appear.
Examples of searches:
- dismissal AND
termination
- finds where both words are found in a document.
- penalties OR
remedies
- finds documents that have one or the other word in it.
- termination NOT
gender
- finds documents that have the word termination but do not have the word “gender” in it.
- termination NEAR
dismissal
- finds documents that have the word “termination” and that have the word “dismissal” close to the word “termination”
- (ALWAYS CAPTIALIZE THE WORDS “AND”, “OR”, “NOT” AND “NEAR”).
- “contract of
employment”
- finds documents with these three words in it.
- labour*
- finds the words labours, labourer, labouring, etc. in the document
- *ation
- finds all words ending in “ation” such as discrimination, termination, consideration, etc.
Printing
Adobe Acrobat
Reader is needed
for printing the
text of any
legislation
included in
CARIBLEX. If
your system does
not already have
this software,
you can install
Adobe Acrobat
Reader (Version
7.0, reader
only) free of
charge by
clicking this
icon
To print entire
legislation
At the top of
the page that
displays the
legislation ,
click on
<Printable
Version>. A
separate window
will open
displaying the
text in a
printable
format. Use the
print button on
the browser to
print.
To print a section
of the legislation
Using the
cursor,
highlight the
text that is to
be printed. Copy
the highlighted
text to a word
processing
document and
paste the text
accordingly.
Print the
selected text
from the word
processing
programme.
- or -
Using the
cursor in the
browser,
highlight the
text to be
printed. Click
on the <File>
menu item and
then <Print>.
The print menu
will appear. In
the Print Range
section of the
print menu,
select the
“Selection”
button and then
“Print”. Only
the selected
text will print.