California Still Revising Harassment Training Regulations

The California Fair Employment and Housing Commission met on August 29 and revised the sexual harassment training regulations further. My previous post summarizing the regs is here. If you would like a redline copy of the current revision, please email Jennifer or me.

The most significant modification is that employers may elect to use a "training year" for all supervisors, such that each supervisor is trained once at some point in every other calendar year. For example, the employer could pick 2007 as a training year for all supervisors, thereby requiring all supervisors to be trained again by the end of 2009. (New supervisors and new hires still would have receive initial training within six months of hire or promotion). The regs' other alternative is to track each supervisor's training individually, ensuring that supervisor is trained on a bi-annual schedule. This change should help employers who would not be able to keep up with each supervisor's "anniversary" date for training purposes.

The final regulations should be out by the end of this year.

DGV