As the year winds down, it’s a good time for employers to look ahead and prepare for next year.
A proactive review of workplace policies and practices can help identify legal risks, outdated policies, and inconsistencies before they become employee relations or labor issues.
Here are 10 areas management should review:
- AI Policies: Address employee use of AI, confidentiality, and emerging workplace risks
- Employee Handbook: Ensure policies are current, compliant, and aligned with actual practices
- Social Media: Review rules for employee social media use while protecting legally protected activity
- Solicitation & Distribution: Make sure workplace rules are clear, consistent, and appropriately applied
- Investigations: Evaluate whether complaints are handled promptly, consistently, and properly documented
- Discipline Systems: Check for consistency, documentation, and alignment with established policies
- Attendance: Ensure attendance expectations are clear and consistently enforced
- Weingarten Rights: For unionized employers, confirm supervisors understand when and how these rights apply
- Past Practices: Identify informal practices that may conflict with written policies or create unintended obligations
- Corporate Privacy: Review policies governing employee data, monitoring, technology, and confidentiality