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SB 778 – 10 Reasons Why Waiting to Train is a Bad Idea

With Senate Bill 778, California has extended the deadline for sexual harassment prevention training from January 1, 2020 (less than 3 months from now) to January 1, 2021.  Approved on August 30, 2019 and effective immediately, SB 778 modifies SB 1343 to give employers more time to train employees and meet the new training requirement. …

Cyber Harassment and Electronic Harassment in the Workplace

You take out your phone to check the weather for the weekend, but instead you see notifications for “106 missed calls” and over 200 new text messages from strange area codes and unfamiliar phone numbers.  How do you know if you are suffering from electronic harassment? This actually happened in one of my first cyber harassment…

5 Things California Employers Should Know About Senate Bill 1343

California’s anti-sexual harassment law received a major update in 2019 with the passage of Senate Bill 1343 (SB 1343), which now requires all employers based in California (with at least five employees) to provide sexual harassment prevention training to all employees, not just supervisors. Re-training is still required every two years, but this biennial requirement…

Bystander Intervention Training – Introducing a New Component to Sexual Harassment Prevention Training

Government agencies have recently began requiring employers to provide Bystander Intervention Training as a method of preventing sexual harassment in the workplace. This enforced training component will not only meet legally required provisions for states such as New York and Connecticut (also a highly encouraged, but not required component of California AB 1825 training), but…

Importance of Civility in the Workplace

Employers Be on Notice – New HR Laws For Employee Training

Unconscious Bias Training Eliminates Hidden Prejudices

Unconscious biases are prejudices triggered by the brain to automatically assess people and situations based on personal background, cultural upbringing, and life experiences. Examples of such prejudice would include casting unknowingly judgement on others as a result of their skin color, gender, age, height, weight, introversion versus extroversion, marital and parental status, disability status, foreign…

Stop Sexual Harassment in NYC Act – 2018 New York Sexual Harassment Training Requirements

New York State and New York City have updated New York’s sexual harassment training requirements and become the most current state to enhance their sexual harassment laws, the #MeToo movement is definitely affecting more than just Hollywood. New York is moving closer to California with their overhaul of employment laws. In mid-April 2018, New York’s…

DCHRA Ammended to Introduce 20th Protected Trait: Credit Information

The majority of professionals are familiar with, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the federal law which protects employees’ rights and makes discrimination unlawful against employees based on their sex or race. Employers and employees working in Washington, D.C., however, are governed by additional anti-discrimination laws and protections such as the DC…

SB 396 Gender Identity Training Protects Transgender Workplace Opportunities

October 15, 2017, SB 396 was approved and requires employers to provide gender identity training that protects transgender workplace opportunities. On August 17, 2007, Assembly Bill 1825 (AB 1825) became effective and was mandated as a harassment prevention training requirement in the state of California. AB 1825 requires for employers to provide their supervisors (within…