The SHRM Executive Order (EO) Impact Zone provides HR professionals with critical insights into how executive actions influence workplace policy, compliance, and employee well-being. This page focuses on the real-time impact of executive branch actions on labor regulations; workplace safety; diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives; immigration; and the federal workforce. Equip your HR team with the necessary knowledge to lead through change and ensure compliance in this ever-shifting policy environment.
DEI Executive Actions
Presidential actions have reshaped the federal approach to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), with ripple effects across the public and private sectors.
Deregulation Executive Orders
This will impact regulatory compliance, workplace policies, and the overall regulatory environment. The postponement of effective dates and public comment periods may also affect businesses and industries awaiting new regulations.
AI Policy Framework
These initiatives enable governments, businesses, and schools to implement upskilling programs for workers affected by AI and automation, offering opportunities for innovation, growth, and a worker-focused transition.
Immigration Enforcement
This will impact hiring processes. Enhanced vetting and screening of aliens seeking admission to the U.S. could impact the hiring process for businesses that employ foreign nationals.
Federal Workforce
The Trump administration is overhauling the federal workforce with a hiring freeze, stricter performance standards, and a full return to in-person work, influencing trends for contractors and private-sector employers.
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100 Days In: Policy Changes, Workforce Impact and How HR Can Respond
As the first 100 days of the new administration draw to a close, HR professionals are facing a rapidly shifting policy and regulatory landscape. From executive actions to emerging legislative priorities, these changes have direct implications for employers, workers, and workplaces. Join SHRM for an exclusive webcast featuring a bipartisan panel of policymakers who will share their perspectives on key policy developments affecting HR and business leaders.
News & Updates
Now is the time to conduct audits to make sure that companies’ diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs are complying with Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
President Donald Trump issued an executive order on artificial intelligence requiring a review of “existing AI policies and directives that act as barriers to American AI innovation.”
Discover five executive orders reshaping DEI, AI, immigration, and federal policies under President Trump’s administration.
The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has lifted a nationwide injunction on the diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) executive orders, permitting them to be enforced while litigation continues.
Explore the implications of a new executive order calling for the end of a common civil rights tool, disparate-impact liability, which has been used for years.
Member Tools
Express Request
Navigating Affirmative Action Post-Executive Order
Toolkit
Implementing SHRM’s BEAM Framework for Inclusion
Resources and Peer Collaboration
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