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Mexico's 40-Hour Reform: What Actually Changes for Payroll in 2026 and Beyond

Mexico just cut the maximum work week from 48 hours to 40, and it did so at the constitutional level, which means this is not a policy a future administration walks back with a memo. If you run...

Greg Miaskiewicz

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Running payroll in Mexico: a complete guide from gross pay to CFDI

Payroll in Mexico turns each gross salary into four separate calculations for four different authorities: income tax (ISR) withheld for the tax authority (SAT), social-security contributions for IMSS, a 5% housing…

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Running payroll in Colombia: a complete guide from gross pay to PILA

Payroll in Colombia in 2026 starts from a monthly minimum wage of COP 1,750,905, a 23% increase on 2025. Most Colombia payroll thresholds are multiples of that number: the transport-allowance limit, the minimum and…

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From a Revolution to a Rulebook: How Portugal's Labor Protections Evolved Since 1974

If you employ people in Portugal today, you are working inside a system that was born in a revolution, cut back hard during a bailout, and rebuilt over the last few years. The rules in force now are not the rules an…

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From Paper Rights to Enforced Rights: How Mexico's Labor Protections Evolved Since the 1970s

If you employ people in Mexico today, the rules you have to follow are not the rules a payroll manager followed even ten years ago, and they are a different world from the 1980s or 1990s. Mexico spent most of the…

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How Collective Agreements Work in Spain: Automatic Coverage, Provincial Wage Tables

Spain has one of the most far-reaching collective-agreement systems in Europe. A properly negotiated and registered sector agreement binds every employer and worker in its scope automatically, whether or not they are…

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How Collective Agreements Become Binding in Germany: Five Routes, Not One

If you have run payroll in France, Portugal, or Spain, you carry an instinct that quietly breaks the moment you cross into Germany. A German collective agreement, a Tarifvertrag, binds almost no one automatically, and yet Germany still reaches roughly 70 percent effective coverage...

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Sectoral Extension of Union Agreements in Portugal: How It Works and Why the Rules Vary by Region

Picture two retail cashiers. Same chain, same job description, same cash register. One works in a shop in Oeiras, just outside Lisbon. The other works in Santarém, about an hour up the road. Neither...

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A Payroll Guide to INFONAVIT, Mexico's Housing Fund

INFONAVIT is Mexico's national housing fund for workers, and funding it is a mandatory payroll obligation for every formal-sector employer in the country. If you run payroll for clients with workers...

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