Global Legislative Update, June 2025 

June 10, 2025

The Global Legislative Update for June 2025 provides insights from Mercer consultants around the globe about key legal developments affecting employers’ benefit and human resource programs in various countries. Download the 57-page print-friendly PDF to read the full country-by-country coverage.

Here are some highlights from the latest issue:

• 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

• Bolivia: Minimum wage increased
• Brazil: Increased IOF rates affect VGBL-type pension plans
• Canada: Consultation issued on Pension Benefits Act review in Manitoba
• Chile: Pension reforms approved
• Colombia: New guidelines for occupational medical values issued
• Mexico: Most employers required to provide employees with seating during workday
• Panama: Social security fund, including pension benefits, revised
• Peru: Withdrawal of employment benefits for terminal illness or cancer diagnosis issued
• United States: Trump administration will not enforce 2024 mental health parity rule

• Bulgaria: Electronic employment register introduced
• Egypt: Employment law to change
• France: Advanced practice nurses may now prescribe sick leave for up to three days
• Hungary: Electronic administration of social security records planned
• Jordan: Doctors’ fees to increase
• Netherlands: Minimum wage to increase
• United Arab Emirates: Health coverage for certain medical and health conditions clarified in Abu Dhabi
• United Kingdom: Many large workplace pension providers sign Mansion House Accord