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

HR Partner

If not, get onto this immediately as venues book out quickly. Or if you really want to make sure employees check and enter certain information, you can include this on an End-of-Year Checklist. End-of-Year Celebration Scheduled and Planned Has the end-of-year celebration been scheduled and planned?

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Non-discrimination testing: Stay compliant with FSAs, HRAs, and more

WEX Inc.

If you’re an employer, performing non-discrimination testing (NDT) is important when it comes to offering benefits to your employees. What is non-discrimination testing? Testing shows whether or not your tax-advantaged plans are discriminating in favor of highly compensated employees or key employees.

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Decision-Making in HR: How To Take the Right Approach in HR Decisions 

AIHR

A key challenge you may face is balancing conflicting priorities, such as aligning leadership goals with employee preferences and addressing immediate needs while planning for long-term success. Another example involves the challenge of balancing immediate hiring needs with strategic workforce planning.

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New Sonoma County COVID-19 Paid Sick Leave Ordinance Applies to All Employers

HRWatchdog

The urgency ordinance took effect immediately upon passage, and its expiration date was extended to June 30, 2021. The ordinance took immediate effect upon adoption. As you may recall, on January 26, 2021, Sonoma County revised and extended its COVID-19 paid sick leave ordinance. Retaliation Prohibition and Enforcement.

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First impressions of OSHA’s COVID vaccine mandate

Business Management Daily

Immediately remove any employee, regardless of vaccination status, who receives a positive covid-19 test or is diagnosed with the virus and keep them out of the workplace until return-to-work criteria are met. You don’t have to pay for these tests. Require employees to promptly notify you if they test positive or are diagnosed with the virus.

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we have to share our feelings on a color-coded scale, how to demote someone, and more

Ask a Manager

And as you point out, it’s particularly problematic for people who cannot answer honestly without revealing info they shouldn’t feel obligated to share at work and which could open them to discrimination. In some cases, not all, there can be value to knowing what mindsets people are bringing to a meeting.

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California Employment Laws Starting 2025

HRWatchdog

Discrimination, Harassment and Retaliation Two signed bills prohibit certain employer actions. Lastly, SB 1137 clarifies that the FEHA prohibits discrimination not only based on individual protected characteristics but also on any combination of protected characteristics. names, dates, list of services and payment information).