Making your 2024 to-do list: New Year’s resolutions for HR professionals

Now that the holidays are over and the new year is in full swing, it’s time to make some resolutions. For HR professionals, a good place to start is making sure your company’s employment policies comply with 2023’s myriad employment law developments. Here are some items to consider putting on your resolutions list. You may have already checked these items off when reading our 2023 newsletters, but if you haven’t, it’s not too late!

Amending handbooks to comply with recent NLRB decisions

As noted during the summer, Section 7 of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) gives employees the right to discuss the terms and conditions of their employment with each other without retribution from their employer. In its 2023 Stericycle decision, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) concluded that facially neutral policies could potentially violate Section 7 if a reasonable employee could (not does, but could) find that a policy infringes on Section 7 rights.