SHRM 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 orders on labor regulations, workplace safety, DEI initiatives, immigration, and employee rights. Equip your HR team with the knowledge to lead through change and ensure compliance in an ever-shifting policy environment.
DEI Executive Orders
Inclusion and diversity are essential for creating thriving workplaces and communities. These principles drive innovation, foster collaboration, and ensure every individual feels valued and empowered.
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.
Deregulation of AI Standards
SHRM supported this executive order as it established new standards for AI safety and security that advanced equity and civil rights and promoted innovation and competition.
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.
Return to In-Person Work
The EO directs the Executive branch department and agency heads to end remote work arrangements and require employees to return to in-person, full-time work at their duty stations, with exemptions allowed at their discretion.
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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
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Navigating Affirmative Action Post-Executive Order
Toolkit
Implementing SHRM’s BEAM Framework for Inclusion
Resources and Peer Collaboration
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