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Jan 18, 2022 4 min read

The Power of Data Lakes

Solving your global payroll challenge Payroll cannot work without accurate and timely HR data. Yet, getting HR data obtained from various sources directly into payroll software has been a challenge for decades.

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Saudi Arabia Payroll Outsourcing Alert

Effective from 1 January 2022, the General Organization for Social Insurance (GOSI) announced changes to employee and employer contribution rates for the unemployment insurance law (SANED) GOSI component by reducing the total SANED contribution from 2% to 1.5%, wit...

Jan 21, 2022 2 min read
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The Power of Data Lakes

Solving your global payroll challenge Payroll cannot work without accurate and timely HR data. Yet, getting HR data obtained from various sources directly into payroll software has been a challenge for decades. In the ‘80s HR data entry processes were man...

Jan 18, 2022 4 min read
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Colombia Payroll Outsourcing Alert

Colombia– Minimum Salary and Transportation Subsidy increased for 2022. The government of Colombia has issued Decrees No. 1724 and 1725 of 2021 and in accordance with these decrees, the Minimum Wage (Salario Mínimo Legal Mensual Vigente – SMVL) and the Transport A...

Jan 17, 2022 1 min read
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Algeria Payroll Outsourcing Alert

Algeria – Income Tax Rate Changes. The government of Algeria has announced changes to the personal income tax rates. The new rates, that are effective from 1 January 2022, were introduced in the Finance Law of 2022. The revised personal income tax rates in ac...

Jan 6, 2022 1 min read
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How Outsourcing Your Multi-Country Payroll to Mercans Creates Cost-Savings

Multi-country payroll outsourcing is the use of an external party to manage a company’s global payroll, including the calculation of salaries, managing taxes and employee benefits. Notably, businesses which maintain only an in-house team and who don’t utilize HR an...

Jan 5, 2022 9 min read
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The new era of expat payroll

Did you ever notice? Why managing payroll for expatriate employees has been a significant challenge for global mobility and payroll specialists. Out of all the zillion challenges a payroll specialist face, these are the critical ones keeping track of ever-...

Dec 26, 2021 3 min read
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United Arab Emirates Payroll Outsourcing Alert

The new UAE Labor Law, that comes into effective on 2 February 2022, will also impact the overtime rules for the private sector employees. These changes have been summarized below: Employees will be prohibited to work more than five consecutive hours without a...

Dec 23, 2021 2 min read
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Log4j Vulnerability: Mercans’ response to a critical RCE vulnerability in the widely used Log4j l...

On Dec. 9, 2021, a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Apache log4j 2 was identified as being exploited in the wild. Investigation revealed that this exploitation was incredibly easy to perform. Due to the broad usage of the popular Java library, many IT Systems ...

Dec 14, 2021 2 min read
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United Arab Emirates Payroll Outsourcing Alert

United Arab Emirates – UAE Announces New Weekend Days for Government Employees. The UAE will transition to a four-and-a-half-day workweek from January 1, 2022. This will see government employees get Saturday and Sunday, and Friday half-day as the new weekend. ...

Dec 12, 2021 2 min read
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Saudi Arabia Payroll Outsourcing Alert

Saudi Arabia - 30% Saudization Requirement for Marketing Roles Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development issued a decision to increase the Saudization requirements for marketing professions. With the Ministry’s decision, the following Sau...

Dec 9, 2021 2 min read
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Saudi Arabia Payroll Outsourcing Alert

Saudi Arabia - NITAQAT Program 2022 The Saudi Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development’s (MHRSD) has launched a revised version of the Saudization program NITAQAT. The second version hopes to provide 340,000 jobs by 2024 and simplifies the compliance r...

Dec 9, 2021 2 min read
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United Arab Emirates Payroll Outsourcing Alert

United Arab Emirates – New Labor Law Announced. A new labour law will, Federal Decree-Law No 33 of 2021 on the Regulation of Labour Relations, will be replacing Federal Law No. (8) of 1980, effective from 1 February 2022. New Employment Contracts With the new la...

Dec 1, 2021 3 min read
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