Global Legislative Update, May 2024 

May 7, 2024

The Global Legislative Update for May 2024 provides insights from Mercer consultants around the globe about key legal developments affecting employers’ benefit and human resource programs in various countries. Download the 60-page print-friendly PDF to read the full country-by-country coverage.

Here are some highlights from the latest issue:

• Artificial intelligence: Global employer resources (updated)
• Minimum wage rates: Global employer resources (updated)
• Remote working: Global employer resources (updated)
• Reproductive rights: Global employer resources post Dobbs ruling (updated)

• Brazil: Rules for survival benefits in pension and life insurance plans issued
• Canada: Federal budget 2024 released
• Chile: First phase of reducing workweek begins
• United States: Final rule to expand overtime protections issued

• Australia: Paid parental leave scheme expanded
• China: Four provinces expand social medical insurance coverage to reimburse fertility treatments
• India: Minimum wage to increase in Central sphere
• Japan: Social insurance enrollment expanded to smaller employers
• Singapore: Guidelines for flexible work arrangements issued
• Thailand: Minimum wage increased in tourism sector

• Belgium: Dismissal protections for employees undergoing fertility treatment enacted
• Bulgaria: Labor code amended to include remote working and artificial intelligence measures
• Denmark: Employers required to record employees’ working time
• Ireland: Auto-enrollment retirement savings bill proposed
• Kenya: Health insurance contributions to start in July
• Poland: Contribution base amount for Company Social Benefit Fund increased
• South Africa: May 29 public holiday for elections added
• United Arab Emirates: Compulsory health insurance expands to Northern Emirates
• United Kingdom: Guidance sets staging data for schemes to connect to new Pensions Dashboard