The Global Legislative Update for September 2022 provides insights from Mercer consultants around the globe about key legal developments affecting employers’ benefit and human resource programs in various countries. Download the 74-page print-friendly PDF to read the full issue. Here are some highlights of the latest coverage:

Global

• Reproductive rights roundup: Global employer resources
• Monkeypox roundup: Global employer resources
• Covid-19 roundup: Global employer resources
• Minimum wage roundup: Global employer resources
• Remote-working roundup: Global employer resources

Americas

• Argentina: Employers’ contribution to occupational disease fund increased
• Canada: Pension regulator proposes consolidated risk-management guideline
• Chile: Protection of digital platform workers boosted
• United States: Long-awaited pay-for-performance disclosures required in 2023 proxies

AsiaPac

• Australia: Strengthened modern slavery reporting duties considered
• Cambodia: Pension contributions required
• China: Measures to improve basic medical insurance introduced in most provinces
• Fiji: Minimum wage increased
• India: GST tax payable on hospital room rents
• Malaysia: Employment Amendment Act 2022 now effective
• Singapore: Work pass framework to fill skill gaps extended
• South Korea: Meal allowance tax-free amount to change

EMEA

• European Union: Social partners’ work program highlights telework, right to disconnect
• Bulgaria: New paternity leave entitlement introduced
• Denmark: Parental leave increased and leave to care for sick family members offered
• France: Minimum wage rates increased
• Germany: Employers must provide more information to new hires
• Gibraltar: Pension auto-enrolment program coverage expands
• Ireland: Statutory paid sick leave enacted
• Italy: Family leave expanded to improve work-life balance
• Malta: Parental leave, carers’ leave and flexible working expanded
• Netherlands: Paid parental leave now effective
• Poland: Minimum salary and hourly wage rates to increase
• Romania: Paternity leave entitlement expanded
• Turkey: Private pension rules, citizenship pension plan adjusted
• Ukraine: Employment law changes introduced
• United Kingdom: Collective defined contribution scheme regulations now effective