CWC hosted its virtual 2025 Workplace Compliance Conference last week. The conference featured ten substantive sessions focused on the compliance landscape ushered in by Executive Order 14173.
These included:
- 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.
Members of the Center for Workplace Compliance (CWC), our affiliated nonprofit membership association, can read more here.