2026 Employee Handbook: What to Update Before It Costs You

Course Description

Employee handbooks can quickly become outdated as federal, state, and local workplace requirements continue to evolve. In 2026, employers need to take a closer look at policies covering AI use, remote and hybrid work, pay transparency, leave, workplace violence, anti-harassment, retaliation, data privacy, and cybersecurity.

This practical webinar will help you identify where your handbook and standalone policies may need attention—and understand how federal, state, and local requirements interact. You’ll also learn the critical differences between handbook provisions and standalone policies, how to evaluate changing state requirements, and how stronger policies can support a more effective workplace compliance and risk-management strategy.

Walk away with a clearer roadmap for reviewing, updating, and strengthening your workplace policies for 2026.

Learning Objectives

By attending this webinar, you will learn how to:

• Understand why the employee handbook continues to be an essential compliance tool despite decades of workplace and regulatory changes.

• Identify how federal, state, and local requirements can affect your employee handbook and workplace policies.

• Determine which requirements may take precedence when federal and state regulations differ.

• Understand the difference between an employee handbook and standalone policies and when each may be appropriate.

• Evaluate how changing state requirements can impact your existing workplace policies.

• Identify key 2026 policy areas requiring review, including AI use, remote/hybrid work, pay transparency, leave, workplace violence, anti-harassment, retaliation, and data privacy.

• Recognize how updated policies can help reduce compliance exposure and support better risk management.

• Develop a practical strategy for reviewing and strengthening workplace policies as requirements continue to change.

• Understand how effective policies can help employers respond to compliance challenges and reduce the potential for fines, penalties, and other consequences.

Who Should Attend?

This webinar is designed for:

• HR Professionals and HR Managers

• Compliance Professionals

• Payroll Administrators

• Business Owners

• Company Leadership and Executives

• Employers and Workplace Decision-Makers

• Anyone responsible for employee handbooks, workplace policies, or employment compliance

Speaker(s)

Margie Faulk

Margie Faulk, PHR, SHRM-CP is a senior level human resources professional with over 14 years of HR management and compliance experience. A former Compliance Officer for Federal Defense Contracting Industry, Margie has worked as an HR and Compliance advisor for major corporations and small businesses in the small, large, private, public and Non-profit sectors. Margie is bilingual (Spanish) fluent and Bi-cultural.

Margie’s focus is on multi-state, national, state and local workplace compliance. Additionally, Margie is working on International compliance initiatives globally which includes workplace compliance in other countries like the UK, Canada, France, Brazil, China, Africa, Mexico and India, just to name a few.

Margie has created and presented seminars/webinars for many compliance institutes. These national training providers, offer compliance training to professionals, business owners and companies interested in having their company compliant with workplace and industry regulations.

Margie holds professional human resources certification (PHR) from the HR Certification Institution (HRCI) and SHRM-CP certification from Society for Human Resources Management. Margie has completed the Certified Compliance and Ethics Professional training and is a member of the Society of Corporate Compliance & Ethics (SCCE).

CEUs

The use of this seal confirms that this activity has met HR Certification Institute’s® (HRCI®) criteria for recertification credit pre-approval.

Credits: 1.5

Compliance Prime is recognized by SHRM to offer Professional Development Credits (PDCs) for the SHRM-CPSM or SHRM-SCPSM. This program is valid for PDC(s) for the SHRM-CP or SHRM-SCP. For more information about certification or recertification, please visit www.shrmcertification.org

Credits: 1.5

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