The Indonesian Government issued a regulation to revoke and replace the Job Creation Law (that we previously reported here), introducing some important changes in outsourcing arrangements and minimum wage requirements.
The new Strategic Issue Paper from the World Employment Confederation (WEC) -Europe, released last August, focuses on the main factors behind the current labour shortages, a growing phenomenon and concern for employers and policymakers across Europe.
It follows the Global Labour Shortage Briefing, published by WEC in the second quarter of 2022, that stressed how job vacancy rates continue to rise in 2022, and in many countries, the numbers are the highest that they have ever been.
The last edition of the Staffing Executive Regulatory Outlook (SERO) presents the result of a survey to executives of staffing national federations around the world on the probability and potential impact of regulatory changes in the industry within the next six months.
In India, Italy and Mexico, the provisions are that regulation changes for staffing industry will have an overall strong and positive impact on the sector, while Belgium, Norway, Germany and Sweden are expected to have the most negative impact.
On 23 February 2022, the Peruvian Official Gazette published the Supreme Decree N-001- 2022-TR, that modified the existing legal frameworks of outsourcing services (Regulations of Law N° 29245 and Legislative Decree N° 1038).
In Spain, on 24 December 2021, trade unions, employers’ associations and the Government reached a triangular agreement on labour reform.
After approval in the Council of Ministers, the agreement was translated into Royal Decree-Law No. 32/2021 of 28 December 2021 on urgent measures for labour reform, guarantee for stable employment and transformation of the job market.
On 31 July 2021, a decree was enacted to amend and extend the terms provided for the implementation and compliance of the tax, labor, and social security obligations imposed to employers under the Outsourcing Amendment adopted last April.
The decree extends the deadline by which employers must implement the provisions of the reform to 1 September 2021.
On 5 October 2020, the Indonesian Parliament adopted the “Omnibus Bill on Job Creation” to favour investments and positively impact employment in the country.
The labour law component of the Bill introduces important changes for employers on minimum wages, outsourcing and temporary contracts, severance payment, unemployment and other matters.