Minimum Wage, Income Tax Contributions, Sick Pay and More: International Manual Updated for Six Countries

Author: Melissa A. Silver, XpertHR Legal Editor

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

Brazil: Changes to the rules on sick pay;

Czech Republic: Increases in the national minimum wage rates, changes to the state pension age and state pension contribution ceiling, changes to tax and social security contribution ceilings and increase in maximum monthly maternity leave benefits;

Greece: Extension of the 2014 National General Collective Agreement, setting a higher pay rate for married couples to the end of June 2015;

Hong Kong: Paternity leave introduced, additional ground on which sexual harassment is prohibited, increased compensation limits for injury and illness and increased national minimum wage rate;

Netherlands: Increased national minimum wage rates, changes to income tax contribution thresholds, increase in maximum amount of sick pay, changes to rules on fixed-term contracts, introduction of statutory transition payments effective July 1, 2015, and procedural changes to dismissals of employees by court ruling; and

Norway: Changes to tax and social contribution ceilings.