Foreign Nationals, Temporary Agency Workers, Social Security and More: International Manual Updated for Eight Countries
Author: Melissa A. Silver, XpertHR Legal Editor
Country guides in our International Manual have been updated with information about the following subjects:
- Czech Republic: New requirements relating to employing foreign nationals;
- Greece: A reduction in social security contribution rates;
- Ireland: Planned reforms to industrial relations law;
- Italy: Changes to the rules for employing fixed-term workers and temporary agency workers and for calculating the wages for apprentices ages 15 to 25;
- Mexico: An increase in the minimum age for young workers;
- Poland: New funds for training employees;
- Russia: Changes to the law on dismissal, including special dismissal protection, an additional ground of prohibited discrimination in recruitment, new rules for employing foreign nationals, new regulation of temporary agency working, changes to the rules for employing children and changes to the rules on hours of work, rest days and annual leave for certain employees; and
- South Africa: An increase in the statutory earnings threshold for additional employment rights.