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California Expands Mandated Supervisor Sexual Harassment Training Content
This bill requires employers who are already required to provide supervisory employees with sexual harassment prevention training (pursuant to AB 1825) to incorporate "abusive conduct" prevention into such training.
According to an article drafted by, Cal Labor Law, "Abusive conduct" is defined to mean "conduct of an employer or employee in the workplace, with malice, that a reasonable person would find hostile, offensive, and unrelated to an employer's legitimate business interests. Abusive conduct may include 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. A single act shall not constitute abusive conduct, unless especially severe and egregious."
The new law does not expand the duration of the mandatory training - only the content of that training. (AB 2053; amends Government Code Section 12950.1).
Employer Action: Employers should update their sexual harassment prevention training curriculum to incorporate abusive conduct prevention training.