The Year Ahead 2025
Employers know that stability is central to workplace productivity and profitability, so how can you stay balanced while the legal ground is consistently shifting under your feet? The Year Ahead 2025 assesses the factors motivating current and coming changes in employment + labor law so that you can move your initiatives and compliance strategies forward with more certainty.
Core Concerns
Agencies and employers are only beginning to feel the repercussions from several significant rulings last term. What approach to regulatory compliance should you take now?
What should prudent employers looking to protect their confidential information and trade secrets do now that the writing appears to be on the wall for true non-competes?
How should employers plan for the near and mid-term given the likely return to more business-friendly standards and the continued growth in labor activism?
Will it be back to the future in 2025 for core wage and hour law issues — EAP minimum salary exemptions, independent contracting, federal contracting, tips, and more?
With workplace accommodations requests and related litigation risk both projected to continue rising, what can employers do to remain compliant — and successful?
To what extent will past experience offer employers a reasonable roadmap regarding changes in immigration and worksite enforcement under a second Trump administration?
What should employers focus on when adopting AI tools in performance management and other areas while confronting increased state-level regulation and enforcement?
Why are expected changes for federal and state workplace safety and health regulations causing uncertainty despite the return of a pro-business administration?
The Golden State has often been perceived as a difficult operating environment for employers. How will recent PAGA amendments and other workplace legislation alter that view?
2025 Legislation Updates
From the growing patchwork of state and local laws addressing employment practices to the DEI push-pull, how much more burdensome will managing multistate rules get?
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