CWC’s 2025 Workplace Compliance Conference Highlights

October 29, 2025

 

What's New

DOL states that after it de-codifies the provisions, it plans to assess each and determine next steps, which include:

  • Navigating Today’s Compliance and Risk Landscape
  • Managing Workplace Discrimination Risks After E.O. 14173
  • Balancing Federal and State Civil Rights Laws
  • Investigating Statistical Indicators of Potential Risk
  • Lessons Learned: The Wrong Ways Employers Pursue Pay Equity
  • California Compliance: Key Changes and What’s Ahead
  • Workplace “Free Speech”: Rights and Risks
  • Workplace Immigration: Legal and Operational Risks
  • Navigating the Reasonable Accommodation Process; and
  • EU Pay Transparency Directive: What Employers Need to Know

Each day concluded with an open forum roundtable, at which attendees discussed practical solutions to everyday compliance challenges. Examples include engaging state regulators and A.I. software vendors on federal policy developments, educating internal leaders on the ability of proactive compliance to reduce institutional risk, and calculating an organization’s “pay gap.”

What It Means

Employers are adapting to a new compliance landscape following President Trump’s Executive Order 14173, which rescinded E.O. 11246. Despite significant regulatory changes, robust and proactive compliance programs remain essential for managing risk.

What You Should Do

CWC members can continue the dialogue through regular Conversation Corners and other CWC Events, including our upcoming virtual training, Managing Civil Rights Compliance and Risk. Mark your calendar for the 2026 Workplace Policy Conference, March 18-19, 2026.





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