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A guide to California laws requiring sexual harassment prevention training laws and requirements.
Learn about the newest workplace harassment training regulations, deadlines and requirements.
Over the last few years, laws and regulations have drastically changed impacting California employers’ responsibilities to train all employees on sexual harassment and all forms of discriminatory harassment.
Our courses are designed for employers who need harassment training in California.
Employee Harassment Prevention Training in English and Spanish
Supervisor Sexual Harassment Training in English and Spanish
CA Laws and Training Requirements:
AB 1825
Assembly Bill 1825 (AB 1825) and Government Code section 12950.1 outline the requirements for harassment compliance training. AB 1825 requires California businesses with 50 or more employees to train their supervisors on sexual harassment, every two years.
AB 1825 applies only to employers with fifty or more employees or contractors. The 50-employee count includes full time, part time, and temporary employees. But be aware, AB 1825 defines an employer as “any person engaged in any business or enterprise in California, who employs 50 or more employees to perform services for a wage or salary or contractors or any person acting as an agent of an employer, directly or indirectly.” This means if your business has employees in other states, which bring your total employee count to fifty or above, training would be required.
SB 1343
Effective January, 2019 Gov. Code 12950.1 (Amended by SB 1343) requires all California employers with 5 or more employees provide 1 hour of sexual harassment and abusive conduct prevention training to non-managerial employees and 2 hours of sexual harassment and abusive conduct prevention training to managerial employees once every two years.
The training and education required by SB 1343 must include:
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- Information and practical guidance regarding both federal and state guidelines for the prohibition, prevention and the correction of sexual harassment
- Remedies available to victims of sexual harassment
- Practical examples aimed at instructing supervisors in the prevention of:
- Harassment,
- discrimination,
- retaliation,
- harassment based on gender identity, gender expression, and sexual orientation
The law also requires training be provided by trainers or educators with knowledge and expertise in those areas.
California Department of Employment and Housing (DFEH) requires both managerial and non-managerial employees must receive training by January 1, 2020.
BE AWARE: California employees statewide must be retrained by January 1, 2022. Check your training date documentation to stay on track with the requirements.
AB 2053
Assembly Bill 2053 requires California employees include workplace abusive conduct training (anti -bullying training) into the already required AB 1825 training program to address abusive conduct. (This requirement began January 1, 2015.)
“Abusive conduct” is defined as “with malice, which a reasonable person would find hostile, offensive, and unrelated to an employer’s legitimate business interests…such as repeated infliction of verbal abuse, such as the use of derogatory remarks, insults, and epithets, verbal or physical conduct that a reasonable person would find threatening, intimidating, or humiliating, or the gratuitous sabotage or undermining of a person’s work performance.”
Abusive conduct / workplace bullying is included in all of our sexual harassment training and meets the AB 2053 training requirement.
FEHA
The California Department of Fair Employment to the Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA), Requirements were placed into effect 2016:
Under this law, CA employers with five or more employees are required to:
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- Take “reasonable” steps to prevent and correct discrimination and harassment.
- Employers must create detailed written policies for preventing harassment, discrimination, and retaliation.
- Employers must distribute its prevention policies to all current and future employees. If 10 percent or more of the workers in a given location speak a language other than English, an employer must also translate its policies into those alternative languages.
- Policy must protect issues related to:
- Gender expression” means a person’s gender-related appearance or behavior, whether or not stereotypically associated with the person’s sex at birth.
- “Gender identity” means a person’s identification as male, female, a gender different from the person’s sex at birth, or transgender.
- “Sex Stereotype” means an assumption about a person’s appearance or behavior, or about an individual’s ability or inability to perform certain kinds of work based on myth,
- Supervisors must report any harassment that they observe or know of, even if no one is objecting to the harassment.
SB 396
Senate Bill 396 became law in 2017 and is now part of the Fair Employment & Housing Act (FEHA) and requires gender identity training requires California employers with 50 or more employees to provide harassment training that must now also include harassment based on gender identity, gender expression, and sexual orientation.
And requires two hours of training for all supervisory employees within six months of their hire date and must be repeated every two years.
SB 1087
Senate Bill 1087 (is a California Law for Farm Workers. Senate Bill 1087 makes farms a safer place for women by creating training requirements and guidelines. The law imposes penalties on Farm Labor Contractors (FLC) who fail to comply. It prohibits the California Labor Commissioner from issuing new or renewal an FLC license to anyone who has been found by a court or an administrative agency to have committed sexual harassment of an employee within the past three years.
Maine Employee Sexual Harassment Training Outline & Analysis
Sexual Harassment Training for Maine Employees meets Maine's Statute, Title 26, Section 807 training requirements.
Respect in the Workplace: Harassment Awareness and Prevention
Qualified Training Trainer/Facilitators
Alliance workplace harassment facilitators are qualified to conduct sexual harassment training under ME regulations. Our traines are human resources professionals or harassment prevention consultants with a minimum of three years practical experience designing harassment/discrimination prevention training, responding to harassment or discrimination complaints, conducting investigations of sexual harassment complaints, or advising employers on these issues.
All of our workplace harassment training sessions are taught by seasoned SME’s with years of experience in the field. They are master facilitators who understand how to apply adult learning principles in a highly interactive learning environment. They make the training relevant, practical and fun.
Who Should Attend
This 1.5 hour session, is for all employees supervisors, managers and human resource department personnel. While the law does not specify it, we recommend Maine employers with employees working outside the state be trained. We also recommend out-of-state employers with employees working in Maine provide this training as well. It can help support an affirmative defense against any sexual harassment claim.
Training Benefits
- Recognize how workplace harassment impacts the workplace
- Identify how sexual harassment and other forms of workplace harassment are defined in court
- Recognize and avoid inappropriate harassing behavior
- Take appropriate steps if you see sexual harassment or other forms of harassment occur against you or others
- Follow company policies an procedures related to sexual harassment
- Apply appropriate steps as a manager or supervisor if harassment occurs
Overview of Course Topics and Learning Points
- It's about respect
- Understanding the legality issues surrounding sexual harassment
- Main Human Rights Act
- Civil Rights act of 1064, Title VII
- Know your organization’s guidelines/policy on appropriate workplace conduct
- What is discriminatory workplace harassment?
- What are the two major categories of sexual harassment?
- What is sexually harassing behavior?
- What about abusive behavior and bullying
- What is acceptable behavior?
- How to avoid inappropriate behavior
- Real Case Studies
- You-Make-the-Call Exercises
- What Would You Do? Exercises
- Treating other employees with respect
- Practical tips to stop sexual and other forms of workplace harassment
- What to do as a “first response” to inappropriate conduct
- How to report sexual harassment or sexually harassing behavior
- Internal complaint process
- Legal recourse relating to sexual harassment
- How and where to file a claim
- The role of the supervisor or manager in controlling sexual harassment
- What does taking immediate appropriate action REALLY mean?
- Confidentiality issues
- Protection against retaliation
- Know your organization’s guidelines on appropriate workplace conduct
- The harassment quiz you must pass
- Training is documentation and policy acknowledgement
Course Analysis
The Alliance Sexual Harassment Prevention training provides all the elements required to enable employers to successfully assert an affirmative defense to Sexual Harassment and other unlawful harassment claims.
Not only does the Alliance Workplace Harassment training meet the legal training requirements of ME statutes, and all EEOC’s training guidelines, this training reduces the chances of being hit with sexual harassment complaints in the first place.
With the information provided in this 2-hour session, your management and supervisory personnel will learn how to prevent, communicate about, and manage these difficult situations effectively — without disrupting productivity.
Alliance’s Training Guarantee
- Our sexual harassment training sessions are an exciting learning experience for employees that they will remember and incorporate into their workplace behavior – even for those who have had harassment training in the past. Our sessions go beyond sexual harassment prevention training and incorporate all types of unlawful harassment under both state and federal laws including harassment based on age, disability, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity and religion.
- Our sexual harassment training is delivered using accelerated learning principles to make them more engaging, fun and interactive.
- We incorporate experienced master facilitators, visual presentations, real-world case scenarios and interactive discussion so participants recognize how to apply the knowledge they have gained.
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100% Satisfaction Guaranteed
Suggestion: Go beyond just training supervisory personnel. Train all employees. Although the statutes do not you are not specifically require it, training everyone in the organization would greatly reduce overall liability.
Take advantage of our low cost training options to provide training for all employees and further reduce your potential liability against workplace harassment claims of all types.
Using Alliance’s workplace harassment training courses reduces the chances of being hit with harassment or discrimination claims against the organization by teaching all employees how to recognize and prevent all forms of discriminatory harassment.
More information about Sexual Harassment Workplace Training
If you would like details about this or other Alliance courses,
please contact us at 877-385-5515.
Let us show you how easy and cost effective it is to bring this training session to your organization today.
Our workplace harassment courses can be delivered onsite, online, and in a "blended" learning formats. All of our harassment courses are customized to your policies and the various state and Federal laws covering your employees.
Featured Trainers in Sexual Harassment
CT Supervisor Sexual Harassment Course Outline & Analysis
The Supervisor’s Guide to Preventing Sexual Harassment: Detailed Outline, Course Analysis and Training Guarantee
Covering sexual harassment, and all other types of workplace harassment, and customized to incorporate your organization’s harassment policy and procedures, this two-hour course is designed to give management and supervisory personnel practical and relevant compliance information through an engaging learning experience.
Participants learn what specifically constitutes a complaint of sexual or discriminatory harassment; specifies how and when a supervisor should work with human resources; and provides specific strategies for recognizing, responding to and resolving complaints of sexual harassment and unlawful discrimination.
Comply with CT Section 46a-54 (15) (B) and 46a-54-204 Training Requirements.
Connecticut requires supervisors to receive two hours of sexual harassment prevention training. Connecticut law defines supervisory employee as: “Any individual who has the authority to use his or her independent judgment, on behalf of and in the interest of the employer, to lay-off, hire, promote, recall, reward, suspend, direct and/or make recommendations for such actions”.
The course is highly interactive interactive using cases, scenarios and exercises. Using You-Make-The-Call application exercises and scenarios practice real-world policy application. Everyone develops a thorough understanding of the nuances of workplace harassment and the legal responsibility they have to control it.
We structure the course around scenarios that are relevant to your work environment, key issues are discussed, questions are answered and guidance is given. Participants have the opportunity to ask questions and have their questions answered by a qualified harassment prevention expert.
The Supervisor’s Guide to Preventing Workplace Harassment course will help your organization prevent and control workplace harassment, and can be an important part of an organization’s effort to create a defensible position against any harassment claim.
Your satisfaction is guaranteed.
Supreme Court decisions and the current EEOC Guidelines make it clear that employers need to go beyond simply having an anti-harassment policy. Employers must provide training to ensure every manager and employee understands the organization's harassment policy. Employers must show due diligence relative to controlling workplace harassment. Every employee should be trained on what harassment is, and what to do about harassment, if they see it happening to them or anyone else.
Managers and supervisors must be aware of their liability and their responsibility to control harassment. They need to know how to prevent sexual, and other forms of workplace harassment, and what steps to take if harassment claims are made.
The Supervisor’s Guide to Preventing Sexual Harassment course, outlined below, will get your organization to track, prevent and control harassment of all types.
Course Outline: Supervisor’s Guide to Preventing Sexual Harassment
Alliance workplace harassment facilitators are qualified to conduct sexual harassment training under these regulations. All of our workplace harassment training sessions are taught by seasoned SME’s with years of experience in the field. They are master facilitators who understand how to apply adult learning principles in a highly interactive learning environment. They make the training relevant, practical and fun.
Who Should Attend
All supervisors, managers and human resource department personnel. ( “Any individual who has the authority to use his or her independent judgment, on behalf of and in the interest of the employer, to lay-off, hire, promote, recall, reward, suspend, direct and/or make recommendations for such actions”.)
Training Benefits
- Definitions of Quid Pro Quo and Hostile Work Environment Harassment
- Recognize the most common myths and misconceptions about workplace harassment
- It's not just about sex anymore-hostile work environments based on protected classes other than sex
- Tips for identifying the four sexual harassment patterns and how to put a stop to them
- Mistakes managers make that can create a hostile work environment in your workplace
- Practical guidance regarding the statutory provisions concerning the prevention and correction of sexual harassment
- Methods for employers to establish the Ellerth and Farragher affirmative defenses to harassment claims
- What you need to do in addition to having a policy to establish that you have exercised
- Available remedies to victims of sexual harassment in employment
- Practical examples aimed at instructing the prevention of harassment, discrimination and retaliation
- Tips to avoid retaliation claims
- How to recognize the many faces of sexual harassment; you'll be surprised by who's actually guilty
- Tips for handling the harassment investigation
- Pass the Harassment Prevention Quiz every manager and supervisor should be able to ace
Overview of Topics and Skills Developed
- Overview of Importance of Training and Laws that Prohibit Harassment
- Learning Objectives
- Why Every Employee Should Care About Discriminatory Harassment
- Why Training is Important
- Federal Laws that Prohibit Harassment
- Understanding all Types of Discriminatory Harassment
- State Law (in your location) that prohibits harassment
- Discrimination versus Harassment
- In-Depth Discussion of the Two Different Types of Harassment
- Definition of Quid Pro Quo Harassment
- Discussion of Who Can Engage in Quid Pro Quo Harassment
- Examples and Discussion of Actual Cases
- Definition of Hostile Work Environment Harassment
- Discussion of How a Hostile Work Environment Can Be Created
- Examples from Actual Cases
- Requirement that Conduct be Severe and Pervasive
- Discussion of Who Can Create a Hostile Work Environment
- What about abusive conduct and bullying?
- What the law says
- Your responsibility to control abusive behaviors
- What to do if it occurs
- Recognizing Inappropriate Behavior
- Verbal
- Visual – including electronic
- Physical
- What Causes Workplace Harassment?
- What about Workplace Romance?
- Cautions
- Actions to take
- Liability
- Employer
- Personal
- Creating a Defensible Position Against Claims of Harassment
- Cases
- Policy
- Appropriate Action
- Prohibition on Retaliation and Need for Confidentiality
- Need for Confidentiality
- Prohibition on Retaliation
- What is Retaliation and How to Prevent It
- Avoiding Costly Mistakes Commonly Made by Managers and Supervisors
- Handling Harassment Complaints
- Elements of the Investigation
- HR’s Role
- Prompt Corrective Action
- In-Depth Discussion of Company’s Anti-Harassment Policy (incorporated throughout the training)
- The Quiz Every Manager and Supervisor Must Ace
Course Analysis
The Alliance Sexual Harassment Prevention training provides all the elements required to enable employers to successfully assert an affirmative defense to Sexual Harassment and other unlawful harassment claims.
The Alliance training prepares managers and supervisors to:
- Utilize best practices for addressing sexual harassment scenarios with groups or individuals
- Limit key elements of the Employer Liability as established by the courts
- Recognize and verbalize what constitutes sexual harassment…and other forms of discriminatory harassment
- Use discretion related to associating personal and professional lives on the Internet, email and social media
Not only does the Alliance Workplace Harassment training meet the legal training requirements of CA 1825, and all other state and EEOC’s training guidelines, this training reduces the chances of being hit with sexual harassment complaints in the first place.
With the information provided in this 2-hour session, your management and supervisory personnel will learn how to prevent, communicate about, and manage these difficult situations effectively — without disrupting productivity.
Alliance’s Training Guarantee
- Our sexual harassment training sessions are an exciting learning experience for employees that they will remember and incorporate into their workplace behavior – even for those who have had harassment training in the past. Our sessions go beyond sexual harassment prevention training and incorporate all types of unlawful harassment under both state and federal laws including harassment based on age, disability, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity and religion.
- Our sexual harassment training is delivered using accelerated learning principles to make them more engaging, fun and interactive.
- We incorporate experienced master facilitators, visual presentations, real-world case scenarios and interactive discussion so participants recognize how to apply the knowledge they have gained.
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100% Satisfaction Guaranteed
Suggestion: Go beyond just training supervisory personnel. Train all employees. Although the statutes do not you are not specifically require it, training everyone in the organization would greatly reduce overall liability.
Take advantage of our low cost training options to provide training for all employees and further reduce your potential liability against workplace harassment claims of all types.
Using Alliance’s workplace harassment training courses reduces the chances of being hit with harassment or discrimination claims against the organization by teaching all employees how to recognize and prevent all forms of discriminatory harassment.
More information about Sexual Harassment Workplace Training
If you would like details about this or other Alliance courses,
please contact us at 877-385-5515.
Let us show you how easy and cost effective it is to bring this training session to your organization today.
Our workplace harassment courses can be delivered onsite, online, and in a "blended" learning formats. All of our harassment courses are customized to your policies and the various state and Federal laws covering your employees.
Featured Trainers in Sexual Harassment
Maine Sexual Harassment Training Course for Employees
Course meets Maine's Statute, Title 26, Section 807 Sexual Harassment Training Requirements.
Our sexual harassment course for all employees and supervisory personnel. The course is designed to help Maine employers build an affirmative defense against harassment lawsuits.
In fact, our onsite instructor-led sexual harassment training is the best way to guarantee that all employees and their supervisors understand the responsibility and the benefits to create and maintain a sexual harassment free workplace.
Maine, along with California and Connecticut have been leaders when it comes to sexual harassment training and prevention. In fact, ME was the first state to pass a law requiring that all employees, managers and supervisors receive sexual harassment prevention training.
While the law does not specify require training, we recommend Maine employers with employees working outside the state and out-of-state employers with employees working in Maine provide this training as well. It can help support an affirmative defense against any sexual harassment claim.
For more information on the Maine Sexual Harassment Training Requirements go to: Maine Sexual Harassment Education and Training Requirement.
Our sexual harassment course for Maine employees meets all ME Sexual Harassment Training Requirements.
Plus, the training is Guaranteed!
Sexual harassment Training for ME Employees satisfies Maine's Statute, Title 26, Section 807 requirements.
In this course participants Learn:
- How harassment laws apply to everyone
- How sexual harassment is defined under state and federal laws and federal regulations
- How different forms of sexual harassment and other forms of workplace harassment are classified
- Specific examples
- Specific cases
- Steps to take if sexual harassment occurs
- Your internal complaint process
- Legal recourse and how to contact the commission
- Confidentiality issues related to harassment
- How to prevent retaliation and protection available
- and More...
View a detail Sexual Harassment Training for ME Employees course outline.
High-Impact and Highly-Interactive Sexual Harassment Prevention Training
This training is designed and delivered in a highly-interactive format and has a high impact on preventing sexual harassment and all other forms of workplace harassment.
- Instructors are highly qualified workplace harassment prevention experts
- Real-world cases are presented and analyzed
- Scenarios and video segments are coupled with “You-Make-the-Call” interactive discussions get everyone involved
And, the training is Guaranteed!
Sexual Harassment Training for Supervisors - Connecticut
Supervisor Sexual Harassment course satisfies Connecticut Sexual harassment Training Requirements
Our Training meets CT General Statutes Section 46a-54 (15) (B) and 46a-54-204
Customized to include your Sexual Harassment Policy and Procedures
Our two-hour sexual harassment course for Supervisors helps Connecticut employers build an affirmative defense against harassment lawsuits.
In fact, our onsite instructor-led sexual harassment training is the best way to guarantee that all supervisors understand both the responsibility and the benefits of creating and maintaining a sexual harassment free workplace.
Connecticut, along with California and Maine have been leaders when it comes to sexual harassment training and prevention. In fact, CT has recently passed laws requiring that all managers and supervisory personnel receive sexual harassment prevention training.
It is important to note, Connecticut law defines supervisory employee as: “Any individual who has the authority to use his or her independent judgment, on behalf of and in the interest of the employer, to lay-off, hire, promote, recall, reward, suspend, direct and/or make recommendations for such actions”.
For more information on the Connecticut Sexual Harassment Training Requirements go to: Connecticut Sexual Harassment Training and Posting Requirements.
Our sexual harassment course for Supervisors meets all Connecticut Sexual Harassment Training Requirements.
Plus, the training is Guaranteed!
Sexual harassment Training for Supervisors course satisfies CT Section 46a-54 (15) (B) & 46a-54-204 requirements.
In this course participants Learn:
- How harassment laws apply to everyone
- How sexual harassment is defined
- How different forms of sexual harassment and other forms of workplace harassment are classified
- Steps to take if sexual harassment is witnessed
- Confidentiality issues related to harassment
- How to prevent retaliation
- What to do if an individual is personally accused of sexual harassment
- and More...
View a detail Sexual Harassment Training for CT Supervisors course outline.
High-Impact and Highly-Interactive Sexual Harassment Prevention Training
This training is designed and delivered in a highly-interactive format and has a high impact on preventing sexual harassment and all other forms of workplace harassment.
- Instructors are highly qualified workplace harassment prevention experts
- Real-world cases are presented and analyzed
- Scenarios and video segments are coupled with “You-Make-the-Call” interactive discussions get everyone involved
And, the training is Guaranteed!
