March 07, 2023

The Global Legislative Update for March 2023 provides insights from Mercer consultants around the globe about key legal developments affecting employers’ benefit and human resource programs in various countries. Download the 55-page print-friendly PDF to read the full issue. Here are some highlights of the latest coverage:

Global

• Reproductive rights: Global employer resources post Dobbs ruling
• Minimum wage rates: Global employer resources
• Remote working: Global employer resources

Americas

• Argentina: Cost of private prepaid health care has increased
• Brazil: President proposes new minimum wage
• Canada: British Columbia’s budget includes benefit changes
• Colombia: Supreme court rules on transitional pension scheme benefits
• Dominican Republic: Per capita fee increased, basic health plan expanded
• Nicaragua: Minimum wage rate increased
• United States: National Labor Relations Board rules that severance agreements may not require waiver of labor rights

AsiaPac

• Australia: Stronger gender pay rules proposed
• China: 2023 minimum wage rates announced
• Malaysia: Guidance clarifies that Employment (Amendment) Act 2022 excludes certain employees
• Singapore: Paid paternity leave and unpaid infant care leave expanded

EMEA

• European Union: Measures advance to reduce gender pay gap, ban salary history
• Belgium: Collective agreement increases bicycle allowance
• Finland: A1 social security certificates now required for all trips
• Hungary: Leave laws expanded, labor law modified
• Ireland: Plans for auto-enrollment pension system advance
• Kenya: Court reinstates 2013 National Social Security Fund Act
• Netherlands: Whistleblowing law revised
• Poland: New remote-working measures enacted
• South Africa: Minimum wage rate for 2023 increased
• United Kingdom: Financial regulator consults on governance of sustainability
• Zambia: National Pensions Authority has increased the earnings cap