Global Legislative Update, March 2025 

The Global Legislative Update for March 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 54-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: Minimum pension benefit published
• Brazil: Employers must include psychosocial risks in risk management process
• Canada: Federal minimum wage to increase
• Chili: Minimum wage increased
• Costa Rica: Paid bereavement leave effective
• United States: Executive order on in vitro fertilization issued

• Australia: Mandatory service standards for large super funds to be introduced
• Hong Kong: Minimum wage to increase
• Malaysia: Internship program to boost upskilling and employment opportunities
• Philippines: New rules for employment of foreign nationals issued
• Singapore: Central Provident Fund contribution rates for older workers increased

• European Union: Corporate sustainability, due diligence rules simplified
• Bosnia and Herzegovina: Minimum wage increased
• Egypt: Minimum wage increased
• France: Permitted meal expense deductions updated
• Greece: Significant reduction in social security contributions planned for overtime, night shifts, and holidays
• Hungary: Tax exemption scheme for working mothers announced
• Ireland: Maternity leave postponement allowed for serious health conditions
• Italy: 2025 budget includes employment and social security measures
• Rwanda: Social security pension contributions increased
• Saudi Arabia: Revised national hiring targets for certain sectors issued
• Spain: Minimum wage increased
• United Kingdom: Regulator issues approach to defined contribution Master Trust supervision