A new law will require mid-size and larger employers in California to put their supervisors through interactive training aimed at preventing sexual harassment. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who may have a hard time standing up to feminist demands given his own record on the issue, signed the bill Sept. 29. (Jacqueline McManus, “New law for harassment awareness”, Monterey County Herald, Oct. 8; Peter Nicholas, “Business Sees an Ally in Governor”, L.A. Times/KTLA, Oct. 18). “The law defines a covered ’employer’ as one that employs 50 or more persons, which includes temporary service employees and independent contractors. The law does not specify that the 50 employees must be within California. That means that an employer with 50 total employees may be covered by the law, even if just a few workers are in California.” (“New California Law Mandates Anti-Harassment Prevention Training for Supervisors”, Jackson Lewis, Oct. 1) (via George’s Employment Blawg). When Connecticut lawmakers enacted the first such state law twelve years ago, I took a dim view.
Calif.’s mandatory harassment training
A new law will require mid-size and larger employers in California to put their supervisors through interactive training aimed at preventing sexual harassment. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who may have a hard time standing up to feminist demands given his own record on the issue, signed the bill Sept. 29. (Jacqueline McManus, “New law for harassment […]
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