A reliable and regularly updated suite of employment law guides for HR professionals with responsibilities for staff in countries outside the UK.
This tool will ensure you:
- Understand employee rights in key areas including minimum wage rates, maternity leave and compensation on termination.
- Recognise the role of collective rights and bargaining in the relevant country.
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Global employer
The Guide for global employers provides an overview of the main issues facing employers with staff in more than one country, while the individual country guides provide employment law guidance at national level.
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Updated to include the 2025 national and regional public holidays.
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Updated to reflect changes to rules on pay deductions, medical certificates and discriminatory action in Saskatchewan.
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Updated to reflect that the requirement to provide a sick note from a medical practitioner after taking three days of sick leave has been removed in Newfoundland and Labrador.
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Updated to include additional information on family responsibility leave in Ontario and leave related to long-term illness, long-term injury and organ donation in Newfoundland and Labrador.
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Updated to include information on the changes to the definition of gender for the purposes of discrimination.
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Updated to reflect a change to the statutory national minimum wage, effective 1 January 2025.
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Updated with the latest average gross full-time earnings needed to obtain the EU Blue Card and the 2025 equalisation duty rate, and to include information on accessibility officers.
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Updated to reflect changes to the earnings threshold for the occupational pension insurance scheme and pensionable age, and income tax rates.
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Updated to reflect the childcare allowance, allowance for paternity leave and earnings threshold for minor employment for 2025, and changes to rules on remote working.
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Enhanced to include information on the EU Directive on adequate minimum wages and updated to reflect changes to the minimum wage rates in Argentina, Brazil, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Ireland, Hungary, Luxembourg, Mexico, the Netherlands and Romania, effective from 1 January 2025.