Top 5 Business Considerations in HR for 2025

Description

The early weeks of the second Federal administration have brought significant changes, and 2025 is already shaping up to be a turbulent year. Understanding what these shifts mean for your business and the new compliance burdens you face is crucial.

Join us for this essential webinar where we’ll break down the top HR compliance priorities you need to address. These topics are not ranked in order, as their impact depends on your business’s current structure, resources, and risk management strategies—all of which we can explore during the session or upon request.

Key Topics:

✔ HR Functional Review – Assess your current compliance and risk levels under new Federal and state HR requirements.
✔ Paid Family & Medical Leave Implementation – Understand workforce planning, absence management, and staffing solutions, including choosing between Maine’s state plan and private options.
✔ Job Descriptions & Pay Practices – Ensure compliance with new salary thresholds and worker classification rules to avoid back pay claims.
✔ Employee Benefits Review – Stay compliant with new laws like the SECURE 2.0 Act, avoid duplicate benefits costs, and align programs with company values to attract and retain top talent.
✔ Pandemic Preparedness – With bird flu concerns rising, it’s time to revisit and update your 2020 pandemic response plan. Given policy shifts in the second Trump administration, businesses should not expect the same level of federal funding as before.

Meet your presenter: 

Sarah Conroy has been an HR practitioner for several decades both in Maine and beyond, working with nonprofit and for-profit organizations across the US to deliver workforce planning, organizational design and all manner of HR assistance.   Her work serving on the Maine Paid Family Medical Leave Benefits Authority and the Maine State Chamber HR Policy Committee in addition to her work with employers in multistate environments have given her the skills to successfully bring up paid family leave for Maine employers as she has with employers in other states. 

Sarah holds several HR and employee benefits certifications and her work complements the benefits programs Healey offers and expands services into the realms of people strategy, policy development, employee relations, talent management and other HR offerings and offers services in the following areas:

• HR Assessments
• Fractional HR Outsourcing
• Special HR Projects
• Employee Benefits Design and Development
• Policy and employee handbook development
• Custom training and informational webinars
• Organizational Design
• Workforce planning
• HR compliance, including employee benefits and compensation and multistate employment
• Compensation analysis and benchmarking