HR Auditing - Important Issues For 2025
Webinar Details
Overview
As workplace laws, compliance standards, and HR technologies continue to evolve, conducting regular HR audits has never been more essential. An effective HR audit helps identify compliance gaps, strengthen policies, and ensure that your organization is operating within the latest federal and state legal requirements.
This session provides a comprehensive look at the most critical HR audit issues for 2025, including updates in employment law, pay transparency, DEI initiatives, documentation, and remote work compliance. Participants will gain practical tools to assess their HR practices, reduce legal risks, and align their HR strategy with organizational goals.
Why You Should Attend
- Stay ahead of the latest 2025 HR compliance updates and trends.
- Identify key risk areas within your HR policies and procedures.
- Learn how to perform effective internal HR audits.
- Ensure compliance with EEOC, DOL, OSHA, and state regulations.
- Strengthen HR documentation, recordkeeping, and employee relations practices.
- Prepare your organization for potential external audits or investigations.
Who Will Benefit
This session is valuable for HR, compliance, and business leaders responsible for ensuring legal and operational soundness, including:
- HR Managers and Directors
- Compliance and Audit Officers
- Business Owners and Executives
- Legal and Risk Management Professionals
- Payroll and Benefits Administrators
- Employee Relations Specialists
Areas Covered in the Session
- Overview of key HR audit principles and practices
- Critical HR compliance issues for 2025
- Employment law updates: FLSA, EEOC, FMLA, and state-specific changes
- Remote and hybrid workforce compliance considerations
- Pay transparency, wage and hour laws, and pay equity audits
- Employee classification and independent contractor reviews
- Documentation, recordkeeping, and policy verification
- Evaluating recruiting, onboarding, and termination processes
- Using HR metrics and analytics to support audit findings
- Creating an HR audit action plan for ongoing compliance.
Instructor Details
Ronald Adler
President-CEO
Laurdan Associates, Inc
Ronald Adler is the President-CEO of Laurdan Associates, Inc., a veteran-owned, human resource management consulting firm specializing in HR audits, employment practices liability risk management, HR metrics and benchmarking strategic HR-business issues and unemployment insurance issues. Mr. Adler has more than 39 years of HR consulting experience working with U.S. and international firms, small businesses and non-profits, printers, insurance companies and brokers, and employer organizations.
Mr. Adler is an internationally recognized thought leader on HR auditing and is the developer the Employment-Labor Law Audit™ (ELLA®), the nation’s leading HR auditing and employment practices liability risk assessment tool. He is an adjunct professor at Villanova University’s Graduate Program in Human Resources Development and teaches courses on HR auditing and HR management. He is also a certified instructor for the CPCU Society and conducts courses on employment practices liabilities.
Ronald has served on two national task forces developing professional standards in human capital measurement and performance management. He is a member of the Institute of Internal Auditors and also a member of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and serves as a subject matter expert (SME) to SHRM on HR metrics and workplace issues.
He is a member of the Maryland Chamber of Commerce and chairs the Chamber’s unemployment insurance subcommittee. Mr. Adler has also been a member of the U.S. Chamber and its Labor Relations Committee.