From OCEG and Brightline Compliance - A complimentary webinar on the draft of proposed regulations to implement California Law AB 1825, legislation which requires employers to provide prompt and continued sexual harassment training for supervisors. Participants will learn about the content of the new draft regulations and the steps that employers should take now.
On October 2, 2006, the California Fair Employment and Housing Commission (FEHC) published its latest draft of proposed regulations regarding California Law AB 1825. When the proposed regulations are finalized, they will detail how employers should provide harassment prevention training courses to supervisors to comply with AB 1825. The regulations, which may be modified further, are expected to be finalized at the FEHC meeting on November 14, 2006.
Dates and Times:
Thursday, October 26, 2006
Thursday, November 16, 2006
Tuesday, December 5, 2006
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EST (11:00 AM - 12:00 PM PST)
Presenter:
Michael Johnson, Esq. Co-CEO, Brightline Compliance
The webinar will address the following questions:
- If we previously provided training that does not match the new regulations, will we have to re-train our staff?
- Which employers are covered by AB 1825?
- Who is considered a supervisor under AB 1825?
- Must supervisors be located in California in order to be covered by the law?
- What expertise is required of trainers?
- What constitutes two hours of training?
- What must be included in the content of the training?
- Must the entire training consist solely of instruction on sexual harassment?
- Do the regulations allow e-learning and webinars as acceptable types of training under the law?
- How long do employers have to respond to questions raised by employees taking an e-learning course?
- How do we track the two-year time periods for training required by the law?
- What information about the training must be retained?
- How must we train supervisors new to our organization or those recently promoted from a non-supervisory position?
- What should employers do now?
About the Presenter:
Michael Johnson is Co-CEO of Brightline Compliance. Mr. Johnson is a former civil rights attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice, where he brought one of the Justice Department's first "pattern or practice" sexual harassment cases. The United Nations selected Mr. Johnson to consult on revisions to the UN's sexual harassment policy and to train UN staff on how to properly investigate harassment complaints. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has asked Mr. Johnson to speak on harassment topics at several conferences held around the country. Mr. Johnson is a graduate of Duke University and Harvard Law School.
About Brightline Compliance:
Brightline Compliance provides online and instructor-led training on preventing workplace harassment and other legal compliance topics to more than one million employees of over 400 clients across the country.