Global Legislative Update, November 2024 

November 4, 2024

The Global Legislative Update for November 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 57-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)

• Argentina: Prepaid health providers face registration requirements
• British Virgin Islands: Minimum wage to increase
• Canada: Federal Pharmacare Act effective
• Peru: Pension system modernization law issued
• United States: 2025 health FSA, other health and fringe benefit limits now set

• Australia: Sustainability Reporting Standards finalized
• China: Temporary job expansion subsidy to hire graduates and young people in Shanghai offered
• Malaysia: Minimum wage to increase
• New Zealand: Work travel expense deduction rules proposed
• Singapore: Platform workers to have more employment rights

• European Union: Digital Operational Resilience Act to impose compliance obligations for pension scheme trustees
• Guernsey, Channel Islands: Minimum wage increased
• Hungary: Healthcare contribution to increase
• Ireland: More details on Auto Enrolment scheme published
• Kenya: Minimum wage increased
• Saudi Arabia: Labor law expanded
• Spain: Mandatory measures for protections of LGTIB individuals
• Sweden: Flexibility of receiving occupational pension benefit payments increased
• United Arab Emirates: New deadline to upload, update health insurance policies
• United Kingdom: Autumn Budget increases National Insurance, National Minimum Wage Rates and includes pension changes