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End-of-Year HR Checklist: 10 Tips to get your HR in order for 2025

HR Partner

Read on for what steps you should take now to ensure a smooth segue into 2025. Depending on your leave policy, you may also need to pay-out employees for any accrued PTO at year-end. Allocate funds and resources now for staff training in 2025, so that staff are clear on what’s available to them for the next twelve months.

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‘We don’t believe you’: What Amazon’s RTO mandate signals to disabled workers

HR Brew

Amazon is among the companies issuing new RTO mandates for 2025, but it’s taken its policy a step further. The company recently announced a strict new review process for disabled employees who want to work remotely, but disability advocates say such policies are unnecessary and can create a culture of distrust.

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What to expect next year with regulations and compliance

HR Brew

HR pros are ringing in the new year in styleby updating internal policies and ensuring their organizations are compliant with new laws and regulations or big changes to old ones. The activity will continue in 2025. Colorado became the first state to regulate AI technology to protect against algorithmic discrimination.

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Legislative lowdown: New York becomes first state to mandate paid prenatal leave

HR Brew

The new policy—an amendment to New York’s already existing sick leave provisions in the state’s labor law—was passed as part of Gov. Kathy Hochul’s FY 2025 executive budget bill. As with sick leave, New York employers are prohibited from discriminating or retaliating against their employees for taking prenatal leave.

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Legislative lowdown: Illinois, Hawaii crack down on ‘captive audience’ meetings

HR Brew

1, 2025, employers cannot “discharge, discipline, or otherwise penalize” employees that decline to attend meetings held by employers to discuss their position on “religious or political matters.” What Illinois employers should know about the captive audience law. Under Illinois’s “Worker Freedom of Speech Act,” which takes effect Jan.

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California Employment Laws Starting 2025

HRWatchdog

Now California employers have a few scant months to prepare for new employment laws taking effect January 1, 2025. Here’s a quick look at the employment law changes ahead for 2025. Unless other stated, these bills are effective January 1, 2025. names, dates, list of services and payment information).

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Employment laws are changing. How tech can create a ‘culture of compliance’

HRExecutive

Heading into 2025, technology will prove pivotal for HR leaders striving to comply with shifting laws and regulations. HR software can automate updates to workplace policies and procedures, ensuring alignment with changing legal requirements. These will go into effect in 2025. The post Employment laws are changing.