Welcome to Global Mobility Lawyer – your one-stop shop for news, views, and expert analysis covering the gamut of workforce mobility and agility issues.

In an increasingly interconnected post-pandemic world, mobility is so much more than just accounting for the immigration rules of a host country. 

Income tax and social security, permanent establishment risk, relocation support and benefits, crisis management, regulatory compliance, and local labour law are just some of the other key factors that should be considered before repositioning talent abroad. 

But speaking to global mobility experts around the world, it is clear many multinational businesses are struggling to navigate the mobility maze amid dynamic changes to working cultures and a shifting geopolitical landscape. 

GML’s goal is to provide timely insights to help legal and HR teams face emerging trends, stay compliant with complex regulations, and make informed decisions about their workforce. To that end, we have assembled a veritable who’s who editorial board of global mobility specialists to help steer GML’s journalism so that we never miss a beat.

This week we look at what a second Trump administration likely means for US immigration policy (spoiler alert: lawyers are worried!), Germany’s targeted labour migration deal with Kenya, the impact of income tax changes in the Netherlands and Scotland, and reasons to link mobility policies to ESG targets, plus much more.

To supplement and provide greater context to our day-one reporting, we have migrated some of our most-read global mobility stories from sister publication International Employment Lawyer, and commissioned a selection of must-read articles from leading lawyers at Bowmans, Carter Thomas, Fragomen, and Morgan Lewis. 

And if that wasn’t enough, we’ve also published our first, ongoing thought-leadership survey: Global Mobility Leaders. Don’t miss our initial 17 expert respondents from ten jurisdictions talk about their careers and the hot topics affecting their clients.

This week, our featured expert is Morgan Lewis’ Shannon Donnelly, who talks about the impact of AI mobility and employers’ struggles to keep on top of remote working requests. 

“More and more countries are developing digital nomad-type visas, while other countries continue to not permit remote work without traditional work and residence permits – this is giving employees a false sense of freedom,” she notes.

If you’d like to provide feedback on our initial reporting, suggest stories for next week’s newsletter, or contribute to our ongoing thought leadership project, please get in touch.