The OBBBA Era & Beyond: Your 2025 Playbook for Compliance and Competitive Advantage

2025 marks a turning point in workplace law—with new regulations like the OBBBA reshaping everything from tax compliance to hiring practices. This webinar delivers a clear, strategic breakdown of what’s changed, what’s coming next, and how employers can move from reactive to proactive. Whether you manage people, payroll, or policy, this session translates legal updates into practical steps, spotlighting key shifts like dependent care benefit caps, SALT deduction revisions, and emerging AI bias regulations.

Packed with real-world case studies and actionable guidance, this 90-minute session equips attendees with a future-ready compliance roadmap. Learn how to pivot with purpose, minimize risk, and lead confidently in this new regulatory landscape. If you’re ready to stop chasing updates and start leveraging them this is your playbook.

• Interpret key provisions of the OBBBA and understand their impact on tax planning, payroll, and workplace policies.
• Apply compliance strategies for updated regulations including the expanded Dependent Care FSA cap and revised SALT deduction limits.
• Recognize new obligations under AI bias laws, and develop internal protocols to mitigate risk and uphold fairness in hiring.
• Identify red flags and risk zones associated with non-compliance, particularly for multi-state employers and small business owners.
• Craft a future-proof compliance roadmap, tailored to the unique needs of your organization or client base.
• Navigate communication challenges, ensuring internal teams and stakeholders are aligned with evolving legal expectations.

• Human Resources Managers and Directors
• Benefits Administrators
• Payroll and Leave Specialists
• Business Owners
• Office Managers
• Direct Managers

Melveen Stevenson is the CEO and founder of M.S. Elemental, LLC, a human resources and business advisory firm. As a certified HR professional with a background in accounting and finance, she helps companies to navigate the human resources “jungle” of compliance, human capital, and leadership challenges. In doing so, she empowers companies to strengthen their infrastructure from the inside out, specifically through leadership development, operations, training, employee engagement, and executive coaching.

Melveen speaks on key topics to empower companies with the latest research and best practices for increasing engagement, enhancing leadership presence, and optimizing diverse workforce groups.

Over the last 20 years, Melveen has held leadership positions in human resources operations, supply chain, and talent management at international companies in food manufacturing, medical devices, and consumer products. She has spent most of her career in California, and has expertise in the state’s complicated employment regulations.

Melveen is certified through the Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM-SCP) and the Human Resources Certification Institute (SPHR).  She is also a faculty member at California State University-Dominguez Hills.