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2026 Handbook Overhaul: Navigating Critical Updates! Does the OBBB Act Impact the Employee Handbook?

Margie Faulk, PHR, SHRM-CP
Instructor

Margie Faulk, PHR, SHRM-CP

Recording Details

Webinar ID

REC2606001

Total Duration

60 minutes

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Purchase required

Format

High-quality streaming
Webinar content

Description

Overview

Employee handbooks are no longer static documents—they must evolve alongside changing laws, workplace practices, and regulatory expectations. As we move into 2026, organizations face new compliance requirements, policy updates, and emerging legislation such as the OBBB Act that may impact workplace policies and procedures.

This webinar provides HR professionals and business leaders with a practical guide to reviewing and updating employee handbooks for 2026. Participants will learn how to identify required updates, ensure compliance, and align policies with current legal and workplace realities.

Why You Should Attend

Outdated employee handbooks can expose organizations to legal risk, compliance violations, and inconsistent workplace practices. With ongoing regulatory changes, it’s critical to ensure your handbook reflects current laws and organizational expectations.

This session helps you proactively update your handbook and avoid costly mistakes.

By attending, you will learn how to:

  • Identify critical handbook updates for 2026
  • Understand the potential impact of the OBBB Act on workplace policies
  • Ensure compliance with federal and state regulations
  • Strengthen clarity, consistency, and enforceability of policies
  • Reduce legal and operational risks

Who Will Benefit?

This webinar is ideal for:

  • HR Managers and HR Business Partners
  • Compliance and Legal Professionals
  • Business Owners and Executives
  • Operations and Office Managers
  • Payroll and Benefits Professionals
  • Anyone responsible for employee policies and handbook management

Areas Covered in the Session

  • Why employee handbooks must be updated regularly
  • Key regulatory and workplace changes for 2026
  • Overview of the OBBB Act and its potential workplace impact
  • Policies most likely to require updates (leave, remote work, conduct, AI use, etc.)
  • Ensuring compliance with federal, state, and local laws
  • Writing clear, enforceable, and legally sound policies
  • Common handbook mistakes and how to avoid them
  • Communicating handbook updates to employees
  • Documentation, acknowledgments, and recordkeeping
  • Best practices for ongoing handbook review and maintenance.
Instructor details

Meet Your Speaker

Margie Faulk, PHR, SHRM-CP

HR Compliance Advisor/E-Learning Trainer

HR Compliance Solutions, LLC

Margie Faulk is a senior-level human resources professional with over 18 years of workplace compliance experience and HR consulting experience. A current Compliance Advisor for HR Compliance Solutions, LLC. Margie has worked as an HR Compliance advisor for major corporations and small businesses in the small, large, private, public, and Non-profit sectors. Margie’s new focus is to provide Employers and Professionals with risk management strategies to develop risk management strategies to mitigate workplace violations.

Margie has provided small to large businesses with risk management strategies that protect companies and reduce potential workplace fines and penalties from violations of employment regulations. Margie is bilingual (Spanish) fluent and Bi-cultural. Margie holds professional human resources certification (PHR) from the HR Certification Institution (HRCI) and SHRM-CP certification from the Society for Human Resources Management. Margie is a member of the Society of Corporate Compliance & Ethics (SCCE). Margie is also a SHRM Credit Provider offering SHRM-CP and SHRM-SPC credits for her training which major HR individuals need to maintain their certification credits.