2025 Handbook Overhaul: Navigating Critical Updates

If there’s ever a time to rethink your handbook, it’s now.  The timeliness has less to do with the 2025 year — the obvious time to roll out a replacement handbook — and more to do with the wave of changes that recently swept the workplace based on the change in administration. It is clear that the changes expected by the new administration will impact the workplace including the Employee Handbook.

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) now has submitted its new Employee Handbook changes that can make Employee Handbooks legally unlawful. The NLRB has the authority to monitor and make changes to employee handbooks for union and non-union workplaces. The NLRB mandates that employee handbook policies do not prevent employees from discussing with their colleagues issues about workplace issues like pay, benefits, and safety issues, and speaking negatively about the company or supervisors. This legal protection is called “Concerted Activity from Section 7 of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA).

Federal, State and Local regulations are in place and regulatory agencies are revving up audit focus for 2025 and beyond. Many state regulations and multi-state regulations are impacting which laws supersede federal regulations.

Workers’ new expectations may clash with employers’ old policies. Policies that ban flexibility, certain policies as per the National Labor Relations Board, and concerted activity may feel frustratingly out of date.

And yet, many organizations punt on handbook refreshes. I think a lot of companies don’t update their employee handbooks as often as they should.

With the shift to hybrid work/Remote work, organizations must set clear expectations around communication, and performance. Managers and associates both play a significant role in making [hybrid work] successful within their teams, and HR teams have an opportunity to provide tools and guidelines to make it even easier.

Areas Covered

• Participants will learn, identify, and prepare for employee handbook violations.
• Participants will be aware of all the new regulations that will impact their company.
• The course will identify the most common employee handbook violations and how to mitigate them.
• Learn how the Department of Labor (DOL), and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) adapted to the changes based on the results of the elections
• Learn how to change regulations to be compliant with employee handbook policies
• Participants will learn which regulatory agency will focus on which regulation and mitigate the risk
• Participants will learn what policies will land them in hot water.
• What policies are “must have” for your employee handbook?
• Social media and the impact of penalties when employees choose to speak negatively about their Employer.
• Learn why Employers need to follow the National Labor Relations Board and why they should care about policies that can be unlawful with new requirements.
• Learn how your managers/supervisors can be your ambassadors in workplace compliance or your downfall
• See how training can be one of your “first line of defense” in litigation.

Who Should Attend?

• All Employers
• Business Owners
• Company Leadership
• Compliance professionals
• Payroll Administrators
• HR Professionals
• Managers/Supervisors
• Small Business Owners

Speaker(s)

Margie Faulk

Margie Faulk, PHR, SHRM-CP is a senior level human resources professional with over 14 years of HR management and compliance experience. A former Compliance Officer for Federal Defense Contracting Industry, Margie has worked as an HR and Compliance advisor for major corporations and small businesses in the small, large, private, public and Non-profit sectors. Margie is bilingual (Spanish) fluent and Bi-cultural.

Margie’s focus is on multi-state, national, state and local workplace compliance. Additionally, Margie is working on International compliance initiatives globally which includes workplace compliance in other countries like the UK, Canada, France, Brazil, China, Africa, Mexico and India, just to name a few.

Margie has created and presented seminars/webinars for many compliance institutes. These national training providers, offer compliance training to professionals, business owners and companies interested in having their company compliant with workplace and industry regulations.

Margie holds professional human resources certification (PHR) from the HR Certification Institution (HRCI) and SHRM-CP certification from Society for Human Resources Management. Margie has completed the Certified Compliance and Ethics Professional training and is a member of the Society of Corporate Compliance & Ethics (SCCE).

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