Global Legislative Update, November 2023 

The Global Legislative Update for November 2023 provides insights from Mercer consultants around the globe about key legal developments affecting employers’ benefit and human resource programs in various countries. Download the 64-page print-friendly PDF to read the full country-by-country coverage.

Here are some highlights from the latest issue:

• Minimum wage rates: Global employer resources (updated)
• One-page guide: Mercer online resources (client ready)
• Remote working: Global employer resources (updated)
• Reproductive rights: Global employer resources post Dobbs ruling (updated)

• Argentina: Private prepaid health system costs increased
• Brazil: Social security contribution exemption to be extended
• Canada: Guidance on multijurisdictional pension plan agreement issued
• Colombia: Mothers have right to paid breastfeeding breaks at work
• Peru: New national holiday honors air force heroes starting in 2024
• United States: Eagerly awaited defined benefit mortality tables issued

• Australia: Reporting recommendations address managing environmental, social and governance issues
• China: Certain policyholders in three provisions can transition from tax-deferred pension to new tax-deferred individual retirement account
• Singapore: Infant care and paternity leave to increase in 2024

• European Union: Commission to propose legislation to revise works council directive
• Czech Republic: Changes to tax exemption of employee noncash benefits proposed
• France: Women who experience a miscarriage have expanded protections
• Greece: Program tackles labor market “brain drain”
• Mauritius: New law requires women make up at least 25% of board members and expands family-friendly measures
• Norway: Changes to commuting deduction, social security proposed
• Spain: Protections for LGBTQ employees enacted
• Sweden: Employer compensation for high sick-pay costs to phase out
• United Kingdom: Cap on bankers’ bonus payments removed as of Oct. 31