UAE This year the combined Eid Al Adha and Arafat public holidays In UAE for private sector workers will begin on Sunday, September 11th and then run on for a further two days until September 13th. Although private sector workers will return to work on Wednesday, 14th September public sector workers will not return to work until September 18th. 

An analysis of records by the social security organization IKA for January 2016 reveals the true state of the Greek pay market. Each month employees worked for 21.38 days, although this fell to 12.22 days for those in the construction sector. In return, the average full-time employee received 1,219.69 euros gross a month, although this amounted to 500 euros in the construction sector and 400.84 euros for part-time workers. The average part-time worker earned 45% of the daily rate received by full-time employees. Finally, no surprises here concerning the gender wage gap – which revealed its usual pattern with full-time women employees receiving, on average, well below (84.5%) male monthly pay.

The UK government proposes to remove income tax and National Insurance (Social Security) exemptions from all notice payments in lieu with effect from April 2018. The current £30,000 tax exemption applies where there is no express provision for an employer to make an in lieu of notice payment in an individual’s employment contract. The exemption will continue only in respect to genuine severance payments arising from such situations as unfair dismissal or redundancy – although excluding any relevant additions such as bonus payments that apply in the notice period. Employers, but not employees, will also be required to pay National Insurance on severance payments above £30,000.