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New Year, New HR Checklist for 2025

Posted by Virginia Young, J.D., HR Compliance Director on January 1, 2025

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It’s officially 2025, which means it’s time to get your HR Checklist ready for the New Year! We’ve got you covered to make sure you stay compliant. Read below for some important reminders.

  • Labor Law Poster: Are your California and federal labor law notices up to date for 2025? Remember, employers are required to physically post state and federal notices in a conspicuous location in your workplace. Order your 2025 All-In-One Poster Here.
  • Employee Handbooks: When was the last time your handbook was updated? There are a number of policy changes required for 2025, including significant changes to crime victim and paid family leave policies. You can purchase a Do-It-Yourself Handbook Guide or we can do the work for you and create a Customized Employee Handbook. If you are a CEA member and need recent updates, give us a call at 800.399.5331.
  • Harassment Prevention Training: If you are a California employer with just 5 or more employees, then your staff must receive harassment prevention training every two years. That means if you trained in 2023 your employees are due for training, or will become due, during 2025. If you last trained before 2023, your employees are due now! CEA has a variety of harassment prevention training options (private in-person, or virtual training, webinars, etc.). Remember, CEA members can access online, on-demand harassment prevention training for free for both employees and supervisors, through CEA University!
  • Workplace Violence Prevention Plans: Most employers were required to develop a Workplace Violence Prevention Plan and train employees by July 1, 2024. If you aren’t up to date on this important requirement, visit our Workplace Violence Prevention Plan
  • New Laws: It’s also important to stay up to date on the new laws and regulations going into effect this year, including minimum wage and exempt salary increases, new laws regarding wage-and-hour supervisor trainings and audits, and leaves of absence developments. Register now for our upcoming 2025 Labor Law Update on January 15 from 10:00-11:30 a.m., where we will cover employment laws impacting California businesses.

Need assistance with any of these services for 2025? Give CEA a call at 800-399-5331 or email us at CEAinfo@employers.org to get started.