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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. Check Any Regulation or Law Changes To remain compliant, it’s important to stay on top of any legal changes that will affect the end of 2024 or the beginning of 2025. Book a demo today , so that you can begin 2025 as you mean to go on.

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What to expect next year with regulations and compliance

HR Brew

The activity will continue in 2025. Colorado became the first state to regulate AI technology to protect against algorithmic discrimination. Almeida predicts others to explore protections in 2025. New York City spearheaded its Local Law 144 of 2021 that regulates the use of automated employment decision tools.

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

HR Brew

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. New York is the first state to mandate that employers provide paid prenatal leave to their workforces. Important details for HR managers.

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Navigating EU CSRD and Pay Equality

Trusaic

Rules relating to this directive will begin applying in 2025 for financial year 2024 for large organizations, through 2029 for financial year 2028 for smaller businesses. On January 5, 2023, the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) came into force, driving pay equity forward in the European Union.

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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. As Dannie Lynn Fountain, who handles disability accommodations at Google, put it, a lengthy accommodations process could cause an employee to quit, and “is still disability discrimination.” Quick-to-read HR news & insights.

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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).