What are the required subjects that a California Harassment Compliance Training must cover?

The regulations require that the learning objectives of the training shall be:

1. To assist California employers in changing or modifying workplace behaviors that create or contribute to harassment; and
2. To develop, foster and encourage a set of values in supervisory employees that will assist them in preventing and effectively responding to incidents of harassment. Specifically, training must cover the following:
   • Harassment, discrimination and retaliation
   • Remedies for victims of harassment
   • Strategies to prevent harassment
   • The effect of harassment on harassed employees, coworkers, harassers and employers.
   • Practical examples and factual scenarios taken from case law, news and media accounts.
   • Obligation to investigate.
   • Anti-harassment policy
   • Retaliation
   • Limited confidentiality of the complaint process.
   • Resources for victims
   • What to do if personally accused of harassment

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