Global Legislative Update, July/August 2025 

July 8, 2025

The July Global Legislative Update provides insights from Mercer consultants worldwide. Download the 81-page print-friendly PDF. Here are highlights of the latest coverage:

• International Labor Organization: Improvements of rights and conditions for platform workers proposed
• Artificial intelligence: Roundup: Global employer resources
• Employees’ right to disconnect: Roundup: Global employer resources
• Minimum wage roundup: Roundup: Global employer resources
• Remote working: Roundup: Global employer resources
• Reproductive rights: Roundup: Global employer resources

• Canada: Sick requirement for short-term health leave eased in British Columbia
• Mexico: Employers must make housing loan payments in certain circumstances for employees
• United States: Supreme Court rules on state ban on gender-affirming care for minors

• Australia: Superannuation contributions to be paid during parental leave
• Hong Kong: Revised fee schedule for public health services gazetted
• Indonesia: New insurance regulation for health insurance products issued
• Malaysia: Labor ordinances expanded in Sabah and Sarawak
• New Zealand: KiwiSaver scheme and contribution amounts adjusted
• Philippines: Anti-discrimination measures introduced in labor code
• South Korea: National contribution base thresholds adjusted for 2025-2026
• Thailand: Minimum wage to increase
• Vietnam: Social insurance law now effective

• European Union: Final adoption near of revised European Works Council, transactional information and consultation procedures
• Czech Republic: Employers get increased protections under revised labor code
• Egypt: Employment law to change
• Hungary: Immediate access to ‘self-help services’ fund allowed
• Netherlands: Minimum wage increased
• Nigeria: Pension contribution remittance systems launched
• Oman: Social protections for foreign employees expanded
• Qatar: Nationalization program launched to boost employment rate
• Saudi Arabia: Revised national hiring targets for certain sectors issued
• Tunisia: Labor code revised to restrict certain types of employment contracts
• United Kingdom: Pension Schemes Bill introduced in Parliament