2-Hour Virtual Seminar on 2026 Workplace Compliance Trends To Watch
May 29, 2026
10:00 AM PDT | 01:00 PM EDT
2 Hours
713086
Group Attendees: Any number of participants
Recorded Version: Unlimited viewing for 6 months ( Access information will be emailed 24 hours after the completion of live webinar)
Keeping up with workplace compliance is becoming more complex, more fast-moving, and more consequential for organizations of every size.
This practical two-hour virtual seminar gives participants a clear, current view of the compliance trends employers should be watching in 2026-from wage and hour risks, pay transparency, leave administration, and workplace investigations to AI-related employment decisions, documentation standards, and evolving expectations around training, safety, and employee communication. Attendees will leave with a stronger understanding of where compliance exposure is rising, what organizational leaders should do now to reduce risk, and how to build a more proactive, informed, and resilient workplace strategy for the year ahead.- Identify the major workplace compliance trends employers should be monitoring in 2026 and understand why they matter operationally and legally
- Recognize common risk areas involving wage and hour practices, pay transparency, leave administration, worker classification, documentation, and manager communications
- Understand how AI, analytics, and digital HR tools can create compliance opportunities as well as new legal and reputational risks
- Strengthen internal processes for policy updates, training, investigations, documentation, and cross-functional coordination with legal, HR, payroll, and operations
- Prioritize practical action steps your organization can take now to reduce exposure, improve consistency, and prepare for future regulatory and workplace changes
Why you should Attend:
- Would you like to identify the major workplace compliance trends employers should be monitoring in 2026 and understand why they matter operationally and legally?
- Would it help to understand how AI, analytics, and digital HR tools can create compliance opportunities as well as new legal and reputational risks?
- Could learning how to prioritize practical action steps your organization can take now to reduce exposure, improve consistency, and prepare for future regulatory and workplace changes be helpful?
- If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, come laugh, listen and learn as Chris DeVany helps us improve performance!
Areas Covered in Session:
- Opening Segment10 minutes
- The 2026 workplace compliance landscape: why the stakes are rising; how compliance trends affect HR, managers, payroll, finance, operations, and organizational culture
- Topic 120 minutes
- Wage and hour priorities for 2026: exempt/nonexempt issues, timekeeping, overtime exposure, off-the-clock work, remote and hybrid work complications, and documentation discipline
- Topic 2 20 minutes
- Pay transparency, pay equity, and compensation communication: what employers should review in recruiting, job postings, employee communications, and internal pay practices
- Topic 3 20 minutes
- Leave, accommodation, and employee relations issues: managing requests consistently, reducing retaliation risk, navigating sensitive conversations, and improving supervisor awareness
- Topic 4 20 minutes
- AI, technology, and compliance: how AI is influencing hiring, performance management, monitoring, documentation, analytics, and decision-making-and what guardrails organizations need
- Topic 5 20 minutes
- Workplace safety, investigations, training, and policy enforcement: strengthening reporting processes, manager accountability, internal response protocols, and recordkeeping
- Closing Segment 10 minutes
- 2026 action plan: compliance priorities checklist, cross-functional coordination, policy review cadence, emerging issues to watch, and key takeaways for immediate implementation
- Live Q&A 10 minutes
- Audience questions, application scenarios, and final guidance
Who Will Benefit:
- HR Leaders
- Managers
- Compliance Professionals
- Payroll
- Operations
- Supervisors
Chris DeVany is the founder and president of Pinnacle Performance Improvement Worldwide, a firm which focuses on management and organization development. Pinnacle's clients include global organizations such as Visa International, Cadence Design Systems, Coca Cola, Sprint, Microsoft, Aviva Insurance, Schlumberger and over 500 other organizations in 22 countries. He also has consulted to government agencies from the United States, the Royal Government of Saudi Arabia, Canada, Cayman Islands and the United Kingdom.
He has published numerous articles in the fields of surviving mergers and acquisitions, surviving change, project management, management, sales, team-building, leadership, ethics, customer service, diversity and work-life balance, in publications ranging from ASTD/Performance In Practice to Customer Service Management. His book, "90 Days to a High-Performance Team", published by McGraw Hill and often accompanied by in-person, facilitated instruction, has helped and continues to help thousands of executives, managers and team leaders improve performance.
He has appeared hundreds of times on radio and television interview programs to discuss mergers and acquisitions (how to manage and survive them), project management, sales, customer service, effective workplace communication, management, handling rapid personal and organizational change and other topical business issues.
He has served or is currently serving as a board member of the International Association of Facilitators, Sales and Marketing Executives International, American Management Association, American Society of Training and Development, Institute of Management Consultants, American Society of Association Executives, Meeting Professionals International and National Speakers Association. Chris is an award-winning Toastmaster's International Competition speaker. He recently participated in the Fortune 500 Annual Management Forum as a speaker, panelist and seminar leader.
Chris has distinguished himself professionally by serving multiple corporations as manager and trainer of sales, operations, project management, IT, customer service and marketing professionals. Included among those business leaders are Prudential Insurance, Sprint, BayBank (now part of Bank of America), US Health Care and Marriott Corporation.
He has assisted these organizations in mergers and acquisitions, facilitating post-merger and acquisition integration, developing project management, sales, customer service and marketing strategies, organizing inbound and outbound call center programs, training and development of management and new hires, and fostering corporate growth through creative change and innovation initiatives.
Chris holds degrees in management studies and organizational behavior from Boston University. He has traveled to 22 countries and 47 states in the course of his career.
