HR & Labor Law
Employment rules, worker rights, and labor-law changes that affect how you run HR and payroll.
How Sectoral Extension Works in France: Near-Universal Coverage From a Single Order
France is the country that pushes sectoral bargaining to its logical extreme. Union membership is among the lowest in the developed world, around one worker in ten, and yet roughly 98 percent of private-sector employees…
Niko Nurmentaus
Product Lead
What Workers in the UK Are Entitled To: A Guide to Leave
The UK's leave system has three things worth knowing up front: the paid annual leave is generous and calculated in an unusual way, the family leaves are long but mostly paid at a modest flat rate, and the system is in…
Niko Nurmentaus
Product Lead
What Workers in Spain Are Entitled To: A Guide to Leave
Spain has one of the more generous leave systems in Europe, and it is built on a design choice worth understanding before the individual entitlements: a good deal of paid leave in Spain is funded by Social Security…
Greg Miaskiewicz
CEO & Co-Founder
What Workers in Portugal Are Entitled To: A Guide to Leave
Portuguese leave has a similar logic to Spain's: the large family entitlements are funded by Social Security rather than by the employer, while a set of shorter leaves are the employer's own cost. But Portugal has its…
Greg Miaskiewicz
CEO & Co-Founder
Portugal Rebuilt Its Talent Tax Breaks: NHR, IFICI, and IRS Jovem
Portugal has spent more than a decade using the income-tax code as a talent-attraction tool, and in the last two years it tore up a big part of that toolkit and rebuilt it. If you run payroll for anyone employed in…
Greg Miaskiewicz
CEO & Co-Founder
