Global Legislative Update, September 2025
September 9, 2025
The September Global Legislative Update provides insights from Mercer consultants worldwide. Download the 78-page print-friendly PDF. Here are highlights of the latest coverage:
Global
- Artificial intelligence: Roundup: Global employer resources
- Minimum wage roundup: Roundup: Global employer resources
- Remote working: Roundup: Global employer resources
- Reproductive rights: Roundup: Global employer resources
- Right to disconnect: Roundup: Global employer resources
Americas
Asia Pacific
- Australia: Reasonable travel and overtime meal expense amounts issued for 2025-2026
- Malaysia: Enrollment of foreign employees in Employee Provident Fund required
- New Zealand: Employees permitted to disclose salary details
- South Korea: Major labor reforms finalized
- Taiwan: Paid time-off for national holidays confirmed
- Thailand: Start date of Employee Welfare Fund postponed
- Vietnam: Work permit procedures streamlined for foreign workers
EMEA
- European Union: Mandatory standards for financial entities using subcontracted ICT services introduced
- Belgium: Summer deal includes employment measures
- Croatia: Pension Act revised
- Czech Republic: Simplified employee reporting to be introduced
- Egypt: Employment law changed
- Hungary: Personal tax exemption scheme for certain mothers expanded
- Italy: Leave for employees with disabling or chronic oncological diseases expanded
- Lithuania: Changes to taxation of benefits announced
- Oman: Three workforce insurance schemes postponed
- Romania: Deadline for transition to national centralized digital employee database coming
- Saudi Arabia: New classification system for all foreign workers introduced
- Slovenia: Mandatory long-term care contribution introduced
- Spain: Birth and child care leave expanded
- United Kingdom: Government responds to inheritance tax and pensions consultation
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