California law AB 1825 requires employers who employ 50 or more persons to provide all California-based supervisors two hours of sexual harassment training every two years. California's Department of Fair Employment and Housing has indicated that online training may be used, as long as it complies with all of the law's requirements.

California law requiring sexual harassment training for supervisors.

On September 30, 2004, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed into law a bill called AB 1825. This new law requires employers who operate in California and who employ 50 or more persons to provide all supervisory employees two hours of sexual harassment training every two years. Employers must complete the first round of training for supervisors by January 1, 2006.

Harassment and other forms of workplace harassment, regardless of the state in which employees work. Information is provided to employees not only on federal law but also on the legally protected characteristics in each state and in many localities.

Like supervisors in all states, supervisors in California take the same sections found in PCTDS's course, Preventing Workplace Harassment. In addition, supervisors in California also take an additional module entitled Advanced Module for California Supervisors.

This module is designed to meet California AB 1825's requirement:

• Be two hours long;
• Be effective and interactive;
• Provide information and practical guidance to learners;
• Cover relevant federal and state law;
• Explain prohibitions against and the prevention and correction of sexual harassment;
• Include practical examples to instruct supervisors in the prevention of harassment
• discrimination and retaliation; and
• Describe remedies available to victims of sexual harassment

To comply with California AB 1825, many online course providers simply lengthened their courses' instructional time to meet the laws' two-hour requirement. PCTDS Compliance decided to take a different approach. Instead of repeating the same concepts and principles to meet the two-hour requirement, PCTDS's Advanced Module for California Supervisors explores additional gray areas and complicated scenarios. For example, the module includes a simulation section that allows the supervisor to apply what he or she learns to the nuances of a difficult conversation with an employee who may be being harassed by a co-worker.

In the simulation section, you play the role of a supervisor who happens to see an employee, Ted, massaging the shoulders of another employee, Lucy. You decide to talk to Lucy to find out whether or not she was bothered by Ted's behavior. Your conversation with Lucy is the subject of this simulation.