One of the ever-present challenges for expat healthcare insurance is medical inflation, which continues to rise, but has the recession made expats or companies scale down?
ORC Worldwide's International Localisation Policies and Practices survey reveals that, despite having a policy, most companies deal with employee localisation cases individually. To ensure lower costs, companies need to standardise their policies.
The tax reimbursement policy followed by the majority of companies for company-source income, is full tax equalisation with the company paying actual taxes – including year-end reconciliation of hypothetical tax deductions.
The latest news from the Federation of European Employers (FedEE).
Major global survey shows that most multinationals plan to curtail overall hiring, reduce 2009 salary increases and cut bonus payouts.