Personal Training Accounts, Minimum Wage, Foreign Nationals and More: International Manual Updated for Five Countries

Author: Melissa A. Silver, XpertHR Legal Editor

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

Belgium: Suspension of collectively agreed pay indexation and continuation of statutory pay freeze;

France: Personal training accounts introduced, changes to career-development interview rules, and extension of right to "professionalization" to all employees;

Qatar: Increase in minimum wage entitling foreign employees to sponsor a dependent to live in Qatar and new requirement for remuneration to be paid into employees' bank accounts;

Switzerland: Changes to mandatory occupational pension contribution thresholds and upcoming changes to employment restrictions for foreign nationals; and

Venezuela: Increase in the national minimum wage rates.