Global Legislative Update, November 2025
November 12, 2025
The November Global Legislative Update provides insights from Mercer consultants worldwide. Download the 69-page print-friendly PDF for the latest coverage:
Global
- Artificial intelligence: Roundup: Global employer resources
- Minimum wage roundup: Roundup: Global employer resources
- Remote working: Roundup: Global employer resources
- Reproductive rights: Roundup: Global employer resources
- Right to disconnect: Roundup: Global employer resources
Americas
- Barbados: Minimum wage increased
- Brazil: Maternity leave for extended hospitalization related to childbirth expanded
- Colombia: New regulation on provision of breastfeeding spaces issued
- El Salvador: Minimum wage increased
- Peru: Regulations to support pension system reform issued
- United States: Top 10 health, fringe and leave benefit compliance and policy issues in 2026
AsiaPac
- Australia: Payday super legislation introduced
- China: Private pension withdrawal options expanded
- India: Employers can voluntarily enroll eligible employees in Employees’ Provident Fund
- Malaysia: Employment protections for gig workers finalized
- Myanmar: Minimum wage increased for private sector
- Singapore: The Workplace Fairness (Dispute Resolution) Bill passes
- South Korea: Implementation plans effective date for labor relations law announced
- Taiwan: Increased minimum wage proposed
EMEA
- European Union: Revised European Works Council Directive approved
- Albania: Increased minimum wage announced
- Bahrain: Upgraded Wage Protection System introduced
- Belgium: ‘Unemployment with company allowance’ early retirement scheme for new entrants ends
- Croatia: Increased minimum wage announced
- Czech Republic: Increased minimum wage announced
- Denmark: Bereavement leave for spouses and cohabitating partners expanded
- Greece: Labor law changes introduced
- Hungary: Personal tax exemption scheme for certain mothers expanded
- Ireland: Budget for 2026 includes benefit and employment measures
- Isle of Man: Shared parental leave, parental bereavement leave introduced
- Lithuania: Minimum wage to increase
- Nigeria: Guidelines on foreign currency pension contributions issued
- Norway: Company-specific age limits to be abolished
- Poland: Method for determining length of service to expand
- Qatar: New fee structure for work permits introduced
- Romania: Medical leave and pay reduced
- Saudi Arabia: Health insurance disclosure form for smaller employers to be introduced
- Slovakia: Minimum wage to increase
- Tanzania: Minimum wage for private sector to increase on Jan. 1, 2026
- United Kingdom: Four consultations on measures in Employment Rights Bill issued
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