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All employers should be worried about the risk of a discrimination or harassment lawsuit. You might think you are the most open minded and fair employer in the world, but unless you have this open-mindedness and fairness instilled into your company in policies and rules, then you could be at risk for a disgruntled employee, or even an employee with a fair claim, taking you to court.

California’s legislature is looking to pass a bill for Cali employers that could actually make their lives easier when it comes to sexual harassment. The bill comes from the Fair Employment and Housing Commission actually, who is proposing the new regulation in order to help employers. The Fair Employment and Housing Commission wants the state legislature to pass a law that would make employers have to have sexual harassment training for themselves and their managers and supervisors.

The Fair Employment and Housing Commission had actually sent over the legislature a similar bill back in last November on the same issue, and the bill went to the California Office of Administrative law. (Don’t ask me how to explain how the California government works.) But the Office of Administrative law returned the bill to the Fair Employment and Housing Commission, saying it wasn’t clear enough.

Now the Fair Employment and Housing Commission has refined its proposition, saying that businesses would need training from a subject matter expert on sexual harassment. The bill will have a 15-day comment period for employers and the public to review it and make any suggestions, which will end March 14. Then the Fair Employment and Housing Commission will have a public hearing on the proposed law on March 27 in Los Angeles. All are invited. You can find out more about these meetings and the proposition itself at the Web site of the Fair Employment and Housing Commission at www.fehc.ca.gov.

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