The Secret Ingredient of Every Successful Global Hiring Strategy in 2024

A new tax year in the UK also means that a raft of new employment legislation came into effect as of 6th April.?

• From the 6th April, the right to flexible working will become a ‘day one’ right, thereby removing the requirement that employees will have to work 26 weeks before making a flexible working request.?
• Changes to paternity leave rights means that employees will now be entitled to take paternity leave as two separate one week blocks.?
• Extra redundancy protection during pregnancy: currently, any employee on maternity, paternity or shared parental leave should be given priority for a suitable alternative roles when their existing role is being made redundant; pregnant women will have this protection from the date they notify their employer until 18 months after the birth.?

These changes mark a further move towards more flexible working and improved maternity rights in the UK.?

Of course, as we’ve explored in our recent newsletter series on contractors, no one employment market in the same.?

For instance, extra redundancy protection during maternity leave is now an entitlement in the UK - but it will remain a perk or even a benefit in some other countries. For some markets where you employ staff, such protections might be a long way off in the future.?

These national and inter-regional differences inform the ebbs and flows of global employment. The flexibility or tightness of a labour market will, of course, guide your hiring decisions.?

Global companies will often work with Employers of Record because they can help to harmonise these differences.?

Because many EORs take care of most of the complexity of international employment, such as tax, payroll, benefits and onboarding, they also serve as local experts in the market where you’re looking to hire.?

But more and more, companies we talk to want more than just an EOR service provider. As employment laws come into effect and regulatory environments evolve, EOR platforms need to be complemented by legal and benefits expertise that supports any tech offering.?

For us here at Omnipresent, this takes the form of:?

• Legal experts who can help you to better understand the regulatory requirements and legal compliance considerations in a given country as and when they change.?
• Benefits experts to help you ensure that you’re harmonising your parental leave and flexible working policies across borders.?

This is the secret ingredient to any global employment strategy - adaptability.?

Ensuring that you can stay one step ahead of new regulations is crucial when laws around benefits, parental leave and flexible working are changing at pace, all around over the world. ?

The Omni-Outlook

International Employee Transfer: Staying Compliant with TUPE Laws: Sign up for our May webinar

Post merger or acquisition, matching your employees’ benefits across multiple territories can become very complicated, very quickly.?

The differences between markets and the legal requirements imposed on you as the employer are nuanced, but important.?

Employer benefits transfer laws such as TUPE require you to at least match the employees current benefits - but this isn't always possible.

Register for our exclusive interview with Omnipresent’s Co-General Counsel James Mallett and leading global benefits expert Emma Gleaves, as they share strategies to help you

• Understand the key global laws governing employee benefits transfer, such as TUPE in the UK.
• Stay compliant with specific legislation as and when you expand into new markets.
• Minimise risks associated with cross-border employee transfers, whether these occur during mergers, acquisitions, or divestitures.

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In other global employment news…

• How business operations can respond to price rises: a CEO’s guide
• A new Marsh McLennan report explains why health and wealth benefits need to go hand-in-hand.

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