26/08/2010 India and Czech Republic Sign Social Security Agreement

India has recently signed a social security agreement SSA with the Czech Republic. The SSA provides for the following benefits, on a reciprocal basis,...

25/08/2010 Czech Republics New Form As Per EU Social Security Regs

New Regulation EC No. 883/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council came into force on 1 May 2010, together with implementing Regulation EC...

26/03/2010 Where European portable pensions plans are now

Almost five years ago, an EU directive aimed to facilitate the process of tackling obstacles to employee mobility. Ffion Llwyd-Jones looks at how the pension transfers plan is still waiting for the journey to begin.

23/09/2009 Meeting expatriate healthcare needs

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?

14/05/2009 Expat localisation: policy versus practice

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.