Building Better Workplaces in 2025: Resolutions for Success

With the new year underway, we’re excited to help companies and their people grow. This year and every year, your resolutions are our resolutions.

We know that building a successful organization takes continuous effort, and we’re here to support the goals that drive meaningful change. Whether it’s developing stronger leaders, refining HR strategies, or enhancing workplace culture, these key resolutions reflect the priorities we know our member companies are focused on:

• Enhancing Employee Engagement
• Investing in Professional Development
• Updating HR Policies and Procedures
• Strengthening Leadership Development
• Leveraging Technology to Streamline HR Processes
• Improving Communication and Team Effectiveness
• Hiring The Right Talent
• Working on My Business Not in My Business

No matter your goals, we have the expertise, resources, and tools to help you achieve them. Kickstart your 2025, and let’s partner to create thriving workplaces in the new year!

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COMPLIANCE UPDATE

President Trump Revokes 60-Year-Old Executive Order Regarding Affirmative Action Standards for Federal Contractors

Late on January 21, 2025, President Trump issued an executive order titled, “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity.” The order is targeted at what the president describes as “illegal” diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility policies that:

. . . not only violate the text and spirit of our longstanding Federal civil-rights laws, they also undermine our national unity, as they deny, discredit, and undermine the traditional American values of hard work, excellence, and individual achievement in favor of an unlawful, corrosive, and pernicious identity-based spoils system.

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KNOWLEDGE GUIDE

Payroll Implementation: Steps for a Successful Implementation Plan

What is HCMT? Human Capital Management Technology (HCMT) is basically a payroll system with many modules to create a comprehensive HR package that brings together best practices and the technology to facilitate them. How you go about choosing the right HCMT package for your company starts with knowing what you want to do. Define your challenges, internal needs, and goals. What are you not able to do with your current system?

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As your business grows, managing HR can become overwhelming—distracting you from what truly matters: scaling your business. In this video, we break down the key signs it’s time to outsource HR and explore different HR outsourcing options.

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UPCOMING WEBINAR: MARCH 5, 2025

Essentials for Your HR "Spring Cleaning" List

Whether your 2025 compliance goals are already underway, or still a work in progress, this is a great time for Human Resources professionals to reestablish compliance-related goals for the workplace. With a new presidential administration in Washington, it also is time to consider the policy implications for the workplace and to proactively reassess and reestablish compliance objectives related to employment law.

Join MEA Director of Legal and Compliance Services Amy McAndrew to discuss these issues, including:

• What we know so far about the Trump administration’s labor and employment law policies and what employers should be doing as a result;
• The future of marijuana legalization and its likely effect on employer drug and alcohol policies;
• Conducting a “Bermuda Triangle” checkup and updating employee handbooks in the face of new laws; and
• The continued importance of anti-harassment and other compliance law training for employees and managers.

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