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California Assembly Bill 1825 (AB 1825) requires California employers
with 50 or more employees to provide all personnel who have "supervisory
authority" a minimum of two hours of sexual harassment prevention training
every two years. Training must include strategies for prevention and discuss
remedies for victims of unlawful harassment.
Some Other Points Worth Knowing About CAL AB 1825:
- The training need not be conducted in two consecutive hours.
- It must be administered by persons qualified
by education and experience to cover the required subject matter and
to present it in an interactive fashion, where there is an open forum
for discussion, questions and answers.
- The training should include working
examples that identify problem behavior, and how to take steps to prevent
harassment and respond to complaints.
- AB 1825 provides a basis for punitive
damages liability, if Plaintiff successfully argues that employers’ failure
to comply with the new law demonstrates their "reckless disregard" for
the Fair Employment and Housing Act.
Miller Guide Two-hour program / one-time session:
- Introduction (10 min.)
- Video Presentation (30 min.)
- Interactive Period for Commentary, Q&A's on Video (25 min.)
- Reading of Employee Manual (20 min.)
- Interactive Period for Commentary, Q&A's on Manual (20 min)
- Distribution of Sign-Off Forms and taking of Miller Guide Test (15 min.)
Miller Guide 2.5 hour program / in 2 sessions during the two-year statutory period:
Part One (Total running time: 1.5 hours)
- Introduction (9 min.)
- Video Presentation (21 min.)
- Reading of Employee Manual (20 min.)
- Interactive Period for Commentary, Q&A's (25 min.)
- Distribution of Sign-Off Forms and taking of Miller Guide Test (15 min.)
Part Two (Total running time: 1 hour)
- Introduction (9 min.)
- Video Presentation of “Scenarios-Only” version (14 min.)
- Recap of Employee Manual (15 min.)
- Interactive Period for Commentary, Q&A's (22 min.)
Miller Guide Three-hour / one-time session:
- Introduction (10 min.)
- Video Presentation (28 min.)
- Recess for employees to interact and discuss video (15 min.)
- Interactive period for group discussion (15 min.)
- Reading of Employee Manual (20 min.)
- Re-play Introduction from Video (3 min.)
- Re-play Scenario #1 from Video (1.5 min.)
- Commentary, Questions and Answers on Scenario #1 (12 min.)
- Re-play Scenario #2 (1.5 min.)
- Commentary, Questions and Answers (12 min.)
- Re-play Hostile Work Environment photography montage (1 min.)
- Re-play Scenario #3 (2 min.)
- Commentary, Questions and Answers (12 min.)
- Re-play Scenario #4 (5 min.)
- Commentary, Questions and Answers (12 min.)
- Recess/Break for employee interaction (15 min.)
- Distribution of Sign-Off Forms and Miller Guide Test (15 min.)
*** Employers conducting three-hour training sessions are provided a specially
edited version of The Miller Guide, at no additional cost, where the live-action
scenarios and H.W.E. photography montage are repeated at the end of the video/DVD.
This feature avoids having to rewind a video or re-cue a DVD. ***
Miller Guide’s fourth and
fifth training modules are identical to the sessions described
above. The distinction is the 14-minute “Scenarios-Only” video (no
panel discussion) is substituted for the 21 or 28-minute programs.
This allows for more interactive periods and is the favorite for
trainers who prefer to convey in person what the panel discusses.
If our training programs are not
a fit for you, we’ll provide you support in designing your own.
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