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SHRM Advocacy Alerts

SHRM urges you to advocate for the reauthorization of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) to enhance workforce development, promote skills-based hiring, and address critical workforce shortages through collaborative efforts.

SHRM urges you to contact your senators and representatives in Congress to support the bipartisan Telehealth Expansion Act of 2023 (H.R. 1843/S. 1001).

Key Policy Areas

At SHRM, we are focused on six key policy areas that have a meaningful impact on the workplace.

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Support effective workforce development strategies

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Advance healthy work cultures and workplace equity

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Enact modern paid leave and workplace flexibility solutions

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Strengthen and improve the employer-based health care system

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Build a modern immigration system that fuels economic growth and protects U.S. workers

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Promote clear, balanced rules and guidance on governance issues

Together, We Have:

  • Secured assistance for SHRM affiliates with the expansion of the Paycheck Protection Program
  • Advocated for Modernized Health Savings Plans Rules through key changes in the CARES Act
  • Connected HR professionals and business leaders to lawmakers with over 1,600 unique interactions at the federal and state levels
  • Increased the ways employers can help students by advocating for the expansion of employer-provided education assistance to include student loan repayment
  • Protected the employer-employee relationship in California through important changes to the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018
  • Showcased powerful women’s voices through SHRM’s partnership with the National Foundation for Women Legislators to celebrate 100 years of the 19th Amendment
  • Paved the way for a permanent option for remote examination of documentation related to the Form I-9 that successfully modernizes the employment verification process without sacrificing safety or security.