Global Legislative Update, July-August 2024 

July 16, 2024

The Global Legislative Update for July-August 2024 provides insights from Mercer consultants around the globe about key legal developments affecting employers’ benefit and human resource programs in various countries. Download the 66-page print-friendly PDF to read the full country-by-country coverage.

Here are some highlights from the latest issue:

• Artificial intelligence: Global employer resources (updated)
• Minimum wage rates: Global employer resources (updated)
• Remote working: Global employer resources (updated)
• Reproductive rights: Global employer resources post Dobbs ruling (updated)

• Argentina: Employer’s contribution to occupational disease fund increased
• Canada: Retirement changes included in spring budget that received royal assent
• Chile: Minimum wage increased
• Mexico: Exploitative work definition expanded to include long work hours and penalties
• Peru: Temporary early withdrawal of length-of-service compensation fund allowed
• United States: DOL’s final fiduciary rule issued

• Australia: National minimum wage, modern award rates increased
• China: Pilot for direct settlement of medical treatment for work-related injuries introduced in Beijing
• India: Information technology sector’s exemption from labor laws extended in Karnataka state
• Indonesia: Details of public housing savings program, contributions and registration issued

• European Union: Final Artificial Intelligence Act will impact human resources policies
• Channel Islands: Guernsey rolls out secondary pension scheme requirements
• Czech Republic: Employers face new reporting measures for lower-income employees under agreements to complete a job
• Denmark: Employers required to record employees’ daily working time
• France: Mandatory profit-sharing measures expanded
• Germany: Gender self-determination law enacted
• Greece: Clarification of digital work card system procedures clarified
• Ireland: Parent’s leave to expand
• Isle of Man: Minimum wage to increase
• Kenya: Employee health insurance contributions effective
• Lithuania: Additional leave introduced for adoptive mothers
• Netherlands: Minimum wage increased
• Norway: Paid parental leave in exchange for a reduced benefit expanded
• Oman: Social protection for foreign employees expanded
• Poland: Minimum wage increased
• Romania: Minimum wage increased
• United Kingdom: Revised fire and rehire statutory code of practice issued