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:

• 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 

• Canada: Basic rate for pension plans set
• United States: Rules finalized for SECURE 2.0 ‘super catch-up’ contributions

• 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

• 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