Preventing Sexual Harassment in California: Training for Supervisors (AB1825)

Course Description:

Under California law, you are required to learn about the prevention of sexual harassment, discrimination, and retaliation. That includes information and practical guidance regarding state and federal laws, how to prevent, respond to, and correct sexual harassment, remedies available to persons subject to harassment, and the potential for liability. By completing this course, you have met those requirements.

Course Duration: 2 hours 12 minutes

Why “Preventing Sexual Harassment in California: Training for Supervisors (AB1825)” Matters:

At the completion of this course, the participant will be able to:

  • Differentiate between two types of sexual harassment, hostile work environment and quid pro quo
  • Recognize the types of behaviors that may create a hostile work environment, and how to prevent it from occurring
  • Understand what your responsibility as a supervisor is, in relation to upholding your company’s obligations
  • Learn to identify behaviors that indicate someone is being subjected to gender harassment
  • Learn what quid pro quo harassment is, how it happens, and what to do to prevent it
  • Understand what abusive conduct consists of and your responsibilities as supervisor
  • Learn procedures for handling harassment complaints, and the legal requirements of those investigations

Key Points:

Consequences of Harassment

  • Case studies of devastating penalties and awards

Overview of Harassment Law

  • What Title VII of the Civil Rights Act really means
  • Potential damages and risks supervisors run
  • Your obligations under harassment law

Hostile work environment

  • What is hostile environment harassment?
  • Supervisor’s duty to protect employees from a harassing environment
  • Are they really offended?
  • Dangers of the Internet and e-mail
  • Gender harassment
  • Supervisor isn’t qualified to investigate, so he needs to go to HR

Hostility based on sexual orientation

  • Hostility based on transgender status
  • Some states protect the transgendered
  • Hostility based on a former relationship

Quid pro quo harassment

  • What is quid pro quo harassment?

Harassment by a customer

  • Duty to protect employees

Relationship with a subordinate

  • Why having a relationship with a subordinate employee can be so legally treacherous

Complaint procedures and investigations

  • Why supervisors should never retaliate against an employee who complains of harassment
  • What if the employee lies?
  • Don’t promise confidentiality to complaining employee

Special situation: When the supervisor is accused

  • When the supervisor is accused of harassment
  • What supervisors should—and most certainly shouldn’t—do when they are accused of harassment
  • Why retaliation claims are so common when a supervisor is accused, and how to avoid them
  • Cooperating with HR’s investigation to resolve matters quickly and without massive workplace disruption

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