The Global Legislative Update for December 2022 provides insights from Mercer consultants around the globe about key legal developments affecting employers’ benefit and human resource programs in various countries. Download the 48-page print-friendly PDF to read the full issue. Here are some highlights of the latest coverage:

Global

• Reproductive rights roundup: Global employer resources post Dobbs ruling
• COVID-19 pandemic roundup: Global employer resources
• Minimum wage rates roundup: Global employer resources
• Remote-working roundup: Global employer resources

Americas

• Argentina: Teleworking register created
• Bermuda: Payroll tax rebates announced
• Canada: New paid sick leave for federally regulated workplace published
• Mexico: Employers required to provide more vacation days
• United States: Congress passes same-six marriage legislation
• United States: Roundup: Employer resources on states’ recreational marijuana laws

AsiaPac

• Australia: New financial, auditing requirements for superannuation funds proposed
• China: Law aims to eliminate workplace gender discrimination, sexual harassment
• Malaysia: Electronic option introduced for employment pass renewals
• South Korea: Minimum wage to increase

EMEA

• Czech Republic: Remote-working rules proposed
• Finland: Measures to boost reemployment of dismissed older workers take effect 1 January 2023
• Hungary: Penalty fee imposed for unspent amounts on the SZÉP card
• Ireland: Remote-working, flexible-working measures integrated into single bill
• Romania: Minimum wage to increase
• Sweden: Defined benefits to increase, employer premiums to decrease
• Tanzania: Compulsory health insurance proposed
• Turkey: Temporary tax-exempt benefits cover electricity, natural gas and heating expenses
• United Kingdom: National living wage and national minimum wage rates announced