Global Legislative Update, October 2025
October 7, 2025
The October Global Legislative Update provides insights from Mercer consultants worldwide. Download the 57-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
- Canada: Basic rate for pension plans set
- United States: Rules finalized for SECURE 2.0 ‘super catch-up’ contributions
Asia Pacific
- Australia: Rules on anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing issued
- China: Supreme Court enforces payment of social insurance contributions
- Japan: Employers must offer flexible working arrangements
- Malaysia: Enrollment of foreign employees in Employee Provident Fund required
- Singapore: Tripartite group to develop recommendations for review of Employment Act
- South Korea: Sanctions against employers habitually in wage arrears introduced
- Taiwan: Parental leave flexibility increased
- Vietnam: Unemployment insurance participation extended
EMEA
- Belgium: Mobility Budget to be required
- Czech Republic: Pension contribution rules changed for employees in arduous job roles
- Denmark: Leave for parents of hospitalized newborn or adopted child and bereavement leave benefits expanded
- Germany: Corporate tax reductions that will impact company pension schemes introduced
- Ireland: Pay-related social insurance rates increased
- Kuwait: Employers required to electronically submit employees’ attendance data
- Mauritius: Gradual pension age increase introduced
- Netherlands: Lump-Sum Revision Act start date further postponed
- Saudi Arabia: Revised national hiring targets for certain sectors issued
- Slovenia: Phased retirement introduced, hiring of older employees boosted
- South Africa: Parental leave extended to all parents, top court rules
- Sweden: Flexibility of receiving occupational pension benefit payments increased
- Turkey: Supplementary retirement system introduced
- United Kingdom: Third-state pension age review launched
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