Global Legislative Update, June 2026 

June 9, 2026

The Global Legislative Update for June 2026 provides insights from Mercer consultants around the globe about key legal developments affecting employers’ benefit and human resource programs in various countries. Here are some highlights from the latest issue.

• Artificial intelligence roundup: Global employer resources (updated)
•  Employees’ right to disconnect roundup: Global employer resources (updated)
•  Minimum wage roundup: Global employer resources (updated)
•  Remote working roundup: Global employer resources (updated)
•  Reproductive rights roundup: Global employer resources (updated)

• Bolivia: Minimum wage increased
• Canada: Equal pay regulations for federally regulated employers published
• Honduras: Minimum wage increased
• United States: Department of Labor revives narrower definition of fiduciary investment advice

• Australia: Securities regulator to focus on financial reporting, audit and sustainability
• South Korea: New ‘5th-generation’ medical insurance plan launched

• European Union: Talent Pool digital platform to address skill shortages
• Belgium: Labor measures aim to increase flexibility, boost competitiveness
• Croatia: Mandatory basic military training reintroduced
• Egypt: Details of workplace nursery requirements issued
• France: Copayment exemption for long-term illness to end
• Italy: Measures to incentivize hiring into permanent roles introduced
• Luxembourg: Minimum wage increased
• Spain: Flexible retirement options to improve
• Turkey: Maternity and paternity leave expanded
• United Arab Emirates: Unified national health insurance system to be introduced
• United Kingdom: Interim report issued by Second Pensions Commission
• Uzbekistan: Employers no longer pay maternity and certain sick benefits

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