Navigating 2025 Employment Laws: What Every Employer Needs to Know

Federal and state employment laws changed in several important ways for 2025, affecting businesses of every size. This 60-minute employment law updates webinar helps HR professionals and employers understand those changes and respond with confidence.

On the federal side, you'll review higher salary thresholds for overtime exemptions, revised rules for highly compensated employees and the introduction of triennial threshold updates. At the state level, the session covers minimum wage increases, pay transparency and job posting rules, and new protections for workers in areas such as healthcare and freelance work.

It also looks at intersectional anti-discrimination laws, limits on captive audience meetings about political and religious topics, and practical steps to update handbooks, contracts and policies, train staff and leaders, and use tools that make compliance easier.

• Explain the major federal and state employment law changes for 2025
• Identify how overtime, minimum wage and pay transparency changes affect your workforce
• Implement compliant policies and procedures
• Update handbooks, contracts and training to reflect new requirements
• Reduce legal risk with proactive compliance strategies

1. Introduction

• Overview of the most important 2025 employment law changes
• Why staying compliant reduces risk and liability

2. Federal employment law updates

• Higher salary thresholds for overtime exemptions
• Revised guidelines for highly compensated employees
• Triennial updates to salary thresholds

3. State-specific changes

• Minimum wage increases across the country
• State pay transparency and job posting requirements
• New worker protections in industries such as healthcare and freelance work

4. Anti-discrimination and worker rights

• Intersectional anti-discrimination laws covering multiple protected characteristics
• Restrictions on captive audience meetings for political and religious discussions

5. Steps to compliance

• Updating employee handbooks, contracts and policies
• Training staff and leadership on new requirements
• Using tools and resources to simplify compliance

6. Conclusion

• Recap of key takeaways
• Final guidance on preparing your organization

Getting employment law wrong can lead to penalties, litigation and reputational harm. This webinar gives practical insight into the 2025 changes so you can avoid common pitfalls, protect your organization and keep your workplace fair and compliant.

It suits HR professionals, compliance officers, business owners and executives, and managers and team leaders.

• HR professionals
• Compliance officers
• Business owners and executives
• Managers and team leaders

Don has been a California employment practices attorney since 1983. He litigated employment and business cases for 17 years and quit once he figured out that nobody wins a lawsuit. Since leaving litigation, he has written numerous books and presented more than 500 times to executives nationwide. He loves talking about emotional intelligence and creating engaging workplaces!

Don was the founder and President of HR That Works, used by 3,500 companies and acquired by ThinkHR in January 2014. He worked there for two years as a V.P.

Now in his “wisdom-sharing years,” Don loves advising and coaching executives. He continues to inspire with his speaking and training.