- This report highlights the legal changes and developments expected to impact the workforce environment in 2018 in Europe, the Middle East and Africa including:
- GDPR: all companies processing the personal data of data subjects residing in the Union, regardless of the company’s location, will have to comply from 25 May 2018.
- Increases in statutory rates and minimum wage for the UK and Netherlands and a national minimum wage for South Africa.
- Significant rulings are expected from South Africa’s Constitutional Court on the employment status of temporary workers; from the European Court of Justice on pregnant workers’ rights; and from the UK courts on cases regarding the correct classification of independent contractors in the Pimlico Plumbers and Uber cases.
- Proposals to abolish the Employment Relationships (Deregulation) Act (Wet deregulering beoordeling arbeidsrelaties, DBA) will make significant changes to the way ZZP independent contractors are classified.
- In addition, we highlight developments expected during 2018 in Austria, France, Ireland, Iceland, Italy and Saudi Arabia.
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