Income Tax Rates, Severance Payments, Discrimination and More: International Manual Updated for Four Countries

Author: Melissa A. Silver, XpertHR Legal Editor

Country guides in our International Manual have been updated with information about the following subjects:

Denmark: Reduction in statutory entitlements to sickness benefits and changes to severance payments rules;

Ireland: Changes to income tax rates and thresholds;

South Africa: New provisions relating to the organizational rights for trade unions, new requirement for extending redundancy consultation period, increase in scope of automatically unfair dismissals and additional rights for part-time workers, fixed-term workers and temporary agency workers; and

Sweden: New prohibition on discrimination against employees with disabilities.