Stay Ahead in 2025: Your Essential Guide to New HR Laws (and How Rollo HCM Keeps You Compliant
Get Ready for 2025 HR Law Changes: As 2025 approaches, HR and payroll teams across the U.S. face new regulations—from minimum wage increases to expanded employee rights and overtime thresholds. Stay compliant with these state-by-state updates, including changes in California, Illinois, Minnesota, and more. Rollo HCM's all-in-one payroll and HR platform simplifies tracking and compliance, ensuring your business is always up-to-date with the latest in employee rights, payroll laws, and HR policies. Stay ahead and keep your team covered with Rollo HCM!
Upcoming 2025 HR Law Changes by State: Stay Compliant with Rollo HCM
As of November 2024, several significant HR law updates are scheduled to take effect in 2025. Here’s a helpful, state-by-state breakdown of these changes. For businesses aiming to stay ahead of compliance challenges, Rollo HCM’s payroll solutions provide automated updates and tools to ensure full compliance, no matter where you operate.
California
- Minimum Wage Increase: Effective January 1, 2025, California’s minimum wage is set to rise to $16.50 per hour. If Proposition 32 is approved, wages for larger employers (26+ employees) will rise to $17 per hour in 2024 and increase to $18 in 2025. Small businesses (25 or fewer employees) would start paying $17 in 2025, increasing to $18 in 2026. Learn more here and here.
Stay on top of minimum wage requirements with Rollo HCM. - Leave Provisions: New laws expand crime victims' leave (AB 2499) and update paid sick leave for agricultural workers (SB 1105). Additionally, AB 2123 eliminates the mandate for employees to use up to two weeks of vacation before receiving Paid Family Leave benefits. More details here.
Rollo HCM streamlines leave tracking, ensuring compliance with evolving leave regulations. - Discrimination and Retaliation Protections: SB 399 and SB 1100 introduce protections against employer retaliation over political or religious beliefs and limit driver’s license requirements. Explore further.
With Rollo HCM, you can easily update policies to align with new anti-discrimination protections.
Illinois
- Human Rights Act Amendments: Starting January 1, 2025, new protections (HB 4867, HB 2161, SB 3310) cover reproductive health decisions, family responsibilities, and extended timelines for discrimination claims. Read more.
- Child Labor Law: SB 3646 updates minor employment restrictions and work hours, effective January 1, 2025. Full details.
Rollo HCM tracks and adapts to child labor law changes automatically. - Whistleblower Act Amendments: HB 5561 introduces new protections for whistleblowers acting in “good faith.” More here.
Rollo HCM helps you implement policies that align with whistleblower protection standards. - Wage Payment and Collection Act: SB 3208 mandates comprehensive pay stubs, detailing hours, pay rates, and deductions. Learn more.
With Rollo HCM’s detailed payroll reporting, issuing compliant pay stubs is hassle-free. - Personnel Record Review Act: HB 3763 gives employees greater access to their employment records. Review the Act here.
Rollo HCM simplifies record access, ensuring employee transparency and satisfaction. - Worker Freedom of Speech Act: SB 3649 prohibits employer-mandated meetings on religious or political opinions. Read further.
- Right to Privacy in the Workplace Act: SB 0508 prevents excessive work authorization requirements. Explore here.
- Secure Choice Savings Program Act: HB 4719 requires employers to offer retirement plans or enroll employees in Illinois Secure Choice. Find out more.
With Rollo HCM, you can set up retirement options to meet compliance effortlessly.
Minnesota
- Pay Transparency: Effective January 1, 2025, Minnesota mandates that pay ranges be included in job postings. More details here.
Delaware
- Healthy Delaware Families Act: Beginning January 1, 2025, employee contributions to this program are required by payroll deduction. Learn more.
Rollo HCM automatically handles deductions, keeping you in full compliance with new payroll laws.
Michigan
- Minimum Wage Increase: Starting February 21, 2025, Michigan’s minimum wage rises to $10.56 per hour. Check for updates.
Stay up-to-date with wage adjustments effortlessly through Rollo HCM’s compliance tools.
Federal Changes
- Overtime Pay Thresholds: Effective January 1, 2025, the new minimum salary threshold for overtime exemption will be $1,128 per week. Find additional information.
Rollo HCM provides updated pay scales and tracks overtime eligibility with ease.
Each state’s HR laws can be challenging to navigate. Rollo HCM’s payroll solutions ensure your business remains compliant, no matter where your employees are based or what new requirements are in place.
