I had recently at a business networking meeting, if a business asked if she needed to deal with the California's new sexual harassment law, AB1825. This business owner is running their company with 18 full-time, 20 part-time employees , 8 temp employees and 5 Sales subcontractors who are in several states.

Prerequisite: 50 + Employees

On the surface it appears that they do not have the 50 + employees, the requirement that determines whether they need to train supervisors. A closer look at the right, however, shows that the temporary service and independent contractors, regardless of where they are located are included in the total number of employees.

Requirements: The training must cover all aspects of harassment, discrimination and retaliation.

The training needs and retaliation: gender, race or skin color, religion, age, and national origin harassment and discrimination. Normally, previous training does not even these areas.

Another entrepreneur wanted to know whether they will continue the training in the same manner as in the previous year training.

Prerequisite: A system to track and document the involvement of employees

The answer is maybe yes, maybe no. When training, all forms of harassment and discrimination and persecution of the participation of workers throughout the training (and not only by characters in / out sheets) and evaluate their understanding of the material and you can prove, then yes, continue to train As in previous years.

An entrepreneur, one on a very tight budget, commented: "It is good that I only train 5 supervisors, because I can not afford to train more. ""

Requirement: The company must have a workplace harassment for all

In this sense, such as harassment-free workplace will, if such owner trains only the regulators? . And if a claim is made by the staff, the money is saved only by the regulators, will be sufficient to costs of lawyers, lost production time and / or punitive damages? Probably not.

Conclusion:

Regardless of the number of employees, location of workers, or prior training, the employers to protect their businesses from harassment and discrimination claims and compliance with the law. Make sure that your company is protected through the training of all employees in the prevention of harassment and discrimination.

Rhonda Goetz
Chrome Zebra, Inc.
866.241.9927
Online Human Resource Training

Rhonda Goetz is the owner and CEO of Chrome Zebra. It is also an authorized trainer harassment and discrimination and on-line teaching designers.

Your online courses to companies with an alternative method, the training saves time and money. Train employees at their desks or workstations, and can train anytime. The companies have no more time to lose, the production to large training seminars, or expensive consultants or in a training set. Online training is economically as well as the cost is approximately U.S. $ 25 or less for each employee.

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