Mellow Blog

HR & payroll, done properly

Practical, country-by-country guides on payroll, compliance and leave — and how to treat your people as capital to invest in, not headcount to manage. Written for HR leaders at growing companies across the UK, Ireland, USA, UAE, India and Australia.

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People Management Ireland

Zero-hours and casual work in Ireland

Zero-hours contracts and casual work arrangements are legal in Ireland but subject to specific statutory protections that limit how they can be used. Employers need to understand those rules before en

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People Management India

Jury service and public duties leave in India

Jury service as it exists in many Western countries does not apply in India — the jury system was abolished after the 1959 Nanavati case and India now operates a judge-led trial system. However, India

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People Management UK

Jury service and public duties leave in the United Kingdom

Employees called for jury service or public duties have a legal right to take time off work. As an employer, you cannot refuse this leave, but the rules around pay, duration and what counts as a quali

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People Management USA

Jury service and public duties leave in the United States

Jury service leave is legally required at the federal level and in every state, meaning you cannot fire or penalize an employee for serving. The rules on pay, duration, and broader "public duties" lea

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People Management Australia

Jury service and public duties leave in Australia

Jury service and public duties leave in Australia is a legal obligation for employers — you must release employees to attend, and in most cases you cannot dismiss or disadvantage them for doing so. Th

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People Management UAE

Jury service and public duties leave in the United Arab Emirates

Jury service does not exist in the UAE — the country has no jury system. That means employers and employees never need to manage jury-duty leave. Public duties leave, however, does arise, and understa

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People Management Ireland

Jury service and public duties leave in Ireland

Jury service and public duties leave in Ireland is an area where many employers have questions but few clear answers. In short: employees have a legal right not to be penalised for attending jury serv

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Comparisons Global

Mellow vs Deel: when you need local depth not global breadth

Deel is excellent for global hiring but expensive and broad for a UK-only workforce. When local depth on UK employment law matters more than global EOR, here is the comparison.

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Comparisons Global

Breathe HR vs Mellow: Payroll Capability Compared

Breathe HR has no native payroll — it connects to Xero. Mellow calculates PAYE natively in the same platform as HR. How the two compare for growing businesses.

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People Management India

Religious observance and time off in India

Observance of religious holidays in India does not follow a single, uniform rule. Employers have a legal obligation to provide a set of paid holidays each year, but the specific days — and how request

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People Management UK

Religious observance and time off in the United Kingdom

Religious observance and requests for time off sit at the intersection of employment law, equality obligations and workplace culture. In short: there is no automatic legal right to time off for religi

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People Management USA

Religious observance and time off in the United States

Employers in the United States are legally required to provide reasonable accommodations for employees' religious observances and practices, unless doing so would cause undue hardship to the business.

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