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The new labor laws for California also have to deal with sexual harassment in the workplace. Perhaps, actually, it is these labor laws that have gotten so much of the new attention by California employees, besides the new laws for the minimum wage increase in California.

Whichever laws are getting the most attention, here are the ones that involve sexual harassment and discrimination in the workplace. Some of these laws build on or refine the previous laws on sexual harassment that we’ve talked about, ones that have already been in effect in California in the last year or before.

Such a law is the so called AB 2095, which talks about sexual harassment training. Such training in the state of California has only got to be applied by employers for their supervisors who are located in the state of California. So in other words, if a San Francisco based company has an office in Seattle, they do not have to train their supervisors in Washington state on the sexual harassment requirements of California.

The previous law that we looked at in California on sexual harassment, as well as discrimination and retaliation, had required that all California employers train their newly hired or promoted supervisor and manager types with 2 hours of interactive education on how not to have sexual harassment and discrimination in the work site. This training was supposed to last at least 2 hours long, and was meant to be repeated at least every 2 years for each individual supervisor or manager type.

The law, if you remember, also was only mandatory for employers with 50 or more employees under their care. As we can see by this additional labor law on the topic, there might have been some confusion whether or not California employers had to also train all of their supervisors in branch offices outside of the state.

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