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Global Legislative Update, July/August 2025
July 8, 2025
The July Global Legislative Update provides insights from Mercer consultants worldwide. Download the 81-page print-friendly PDF. Here are highlights of the latest coverage:
Global
- International Labor Organization: Improvements of rights and conditions for platform workers proposed
- Artificial intelligence: Roundup: Global employer resources
- Employees’ right to disconnect: Roundup: Global employer resources
- Minimum wage roundup: Roundup: Global employer resources
- Remote working: Roundup: Global employer resources
- Reproductive rights: Roundup: Global employer resources
Americas
AsiaPacific
- Australia: Superannuation contributions to be paid during parental leave
- Hong Kong: Revised fee schedule for public health services gazetted
- Indonesia: New insurance regulation for health insurance products issued
- Malaysia: Labor ordinances expanded in Sabah and Sarawak
- New Zealand: KiwiSaver scheme and contribution amounts adjusted
- Philippines: Anti-discrimination measures introduced in labor code
- South Korea: National contribution base thresholds adjusted for 2025-2026
- Thailand: Minimum wage to increase
- Vietnam: Social insurance law now effective
EMEA
- European Union: Final adoption near of revised European Works Council, transactional information and consultation procedures
- Czech Republic: Employers get increased protections under revised labor code
- Egypt: Employment law to change
- Hungary: Immediate access to ‘self-help services’ fund allowed
- Netherlands: Minimum wage increased
- Nigeria: Pension contribution remittance systems launched
- Oman: Social protections for foreign employees expanded
- Qatar: Nationalization program launched to boost employment rate
- Saudi Arabia: Revised national hiring targets for certain sectors issued
- Tunisia: Labor code revised to restrict certain types of employment contracts
- United Kingdom: Pension Schemes Bill introduced in Parliament
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