California Sexual Harassment Bill 1825

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AB 1825, Reyes.  Sexual Harassment: Ttraining and education. Existing law makes certain specified employment practices unlawful, including the harassment of an employee directly by the employer or indirectly by agents of the employer with the employer's knowledge.  Existing law further requires every employer to act to ensure a workplace free of sexual harassment by implementing certain minimum requirements, including posting sexual harassment information posters at the workplace and obtaining and making available an information sheet on sexual harassment.

This bill would require employers with 50 or more employees to provide 2 hours of training and education to all supervisory employees, as specified, within one year of January 1, 2005, unless the employer has provided sexual harassment training and education to employees after January 1, 2003.  The bill would require each employer to provide sexual harassment training and education to each supervisory employee once every 2 years, after January 1, 2006.