California Sexual Harassment

California Sexual Harassment Law AB 1825

California sexual harassment law AB 1825 requires training for 50 or more employees on average, every two years. With new hires, the training needs to be completed within the first six months of employment.Training will be professional and conducted in a separate room such as a classroom, or they must provide interactive effective training, The training should include an understanding of state and federal laws pertaining to sexual harassment in the workplace, solutions on how to stop the harassment, and offer up examples for the employees to learn which would be considered instances of sexual harassment, discrimination and gender bias. If an employer or company does not supply this training, and sexual harassment occurs, there may be lawsuits filed.

It is important that those who teach sexual harassment law, are highly qualified Qualifications for teaching California sexual harassment AB 1825 requires an attorney-especially one versed in Civil Rights, professors with two years of law training, or human resource employees with at least two years experience in gender, sexual, and discrimination training. This allows the employee to learn all the factors of gender discrimination, minority laws, and sexual harassment violations. In addition, this type of training offers the employee problem solving by using videos, slides, group questions and answers, quizzes, examples, and reading materials to study. The class is normally two hours long and when completed, the employee will sign a statement of participation.

Under California sexual harassment law, two types of situations exist. The first, termed quid pro quo, defines it to mean if the continued employment of an employee female or male, is dependent upon sexual favors granted to the employer, and whether the employee submits or not, this is considered sexual harassment. The second type called a hostile work environment, is caused when the employees job performance begins to suffer due to another employee's sexual references such as, having to listen to jokes of a sexual nature, attention being focused on specific body parts, sexual gestures and sexual demands. If the employee has made it clear he or she feels uncomfortable and nothing is done to rectify the situation, a lawsuit for sexual harassment may be filed.

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