What are the required qualifications for California Harassment Compliance Training instructors?

Harassment compliance training instructors must be:

• An attorney whose practice includes California or federal employment law.
• "Human Resource Professionals" or "Harassment Prevention Consultants" with a minimum of two or more years of practical experience in handling discrimination, retaliation and sexual harassment matters.
• A credited professors or instructors in law schools, colleges or universities who have either 20 instruction hours or two or more years of experience teaching about California or federal employment law.
• Able to train about and answer questions regarding the required subjects for the training including:
  • How to recognize unlawful harassment discrimination and retaliation under California and federal law
  • What to do when harassing behavior occurs in the workplace
  • How to make harassment complaints
  • How to handle a harassment complaint
  • Why and how employers investigate complaints
  • What is retaliation and how to prevent it
  • Elements of an effective anti-harassment policy
  • How harassment affects employees, co-workers, harassers and employers

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