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New California Law Requires Sexual Harassment Prevention Training for Supervisors and Non-Supervisors
California employers with at least five employees must provide sexual harassment prevention training and education to all supervisory employees and non-supervisory employees in California by January 1, 2020. Here are some highlights:
(1) Employers must provide sexual harassment prevention training to temporary or seasonal employees within 30 calendar days after the hire date or within 100 hours worked if the employee will work for less than six months. In the case of a temporary employee employed by a temporary services employer (as defined by the California Labor Code) to perform services for clients, the training must be provided by the temporary services employer, not the client.
(2) The anti-sexual harassment training may be conducted with other employees, as a group, or individually, and broken up into shorter time segments, as long as the two-hour requirement for supervisory employees and one-hour requirement for non-supervisory employees is reached.
(3) Employers who provide the required trainings after January 1, 2019, are not required to comply with the January 1, 2020, deadline.
Please contact the Human Resources Consortium with any questions about the new law and compliance with the expanded training requirements and to schedule training.