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We all know about the sexual harassment law in California now, about how employers with 50 or more employees must provide their supervisors and managers with at least two hours of training every two years to help them prevent sexual harassment, discrimination, and retaliation at the work site. This two hour training or more must be given to all newly hired or promoted supervisors or managers, within six months of them taking their post.

This law doesn’t necessary extend to all employers, especially those with fewer than 50 employees, but sexual harassment just doesn’t target all big employers. In fact, any employer is open for sexual harassment charges from one of their employees, as well as discrimination charges and the charges of retaliation that can follow.

To that end, the California Chamber of Commerce is offering a Web based training program to help all California businesses comply with the sexual harassment and discrimination guidelines on training and education.

The Web based program is paced so that the supervisor themselves can control the pace of the training, making it suitable for any level of experience within your group of supervisors and managers. This Web bases training meets the California labor law’s requirements that the training be interactive, which means that video training in your conference room is not likely to cut it as a training under the California labor law.

Instead, you will need to have role playing, perhaps some question and answer sessions with a resident or outside expert, or some other active and lively component of the training in order to meet the requirements of the California labor law.

What if you just give a hand out instead? Well, consider this. Failure to comply with the California labor law on sexual harassment could lead to the Department of Fair Employment and Housing sending you a corrective order, as well as opening your company up to more possible sexual harassment court cases —and losses.

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