As employers head into Q4, now is the time to get your employment compliance tasks in order!
As a reminder, New York and Illinois require annual sexual harassment prevention training (and California requires training every two years). Make sure all of your employees are trained before the end of the year.
In addition, now is the time to start annual handbook updates so there’s no scramble at year end. For example, New York has implemented various legal updates over the last year that will impact employer policies relating to paid prenatal leave and lactation breaks. Chicago’s paid time off and sick leave law changes also went into effect in July of this year. Employers should make sure their policies are updated to account for these and other state employment law developments from the past year.