Sexual Harassment Training That Complies With California AB 1825 Regulations

 

Provide the supervisors in your organization with sexual harassment training you can trust, from Alexander Hamilton Institute, highly-respected employment law experts since 1984.

 

AB 1825 requires that sexual harassment training for all supervisors must be repeated every 2 years.   In addition, newly promoted and newly hired supervisors must be trained within 6 months of their promotion and/or hire date. 

 

Employers beware:  All training must meet the strict training requirements contained in the final regulations that were issued by the California Fair Employment & Housing Commission.

 

AB 1825 Regulation Requirements	Does AHI's Training Solution Meet The Requirements?
Covers all 11 content points as mandated by AB 1825  regulations.	Yes.
Training is conducted by qualified "trainers."	Yes.*
Meets the interactive requirements and can prove participation in the interactive content (questions, scenarios, quizzes, tests, activities).	Yes.
Trainers must use "hypotheticals or examples that illustrate the course content and involve the supervisor through questions, problem solving, and quizzes to ensure that the information is understood."	Yes.
Provides required documentation and proof of training.	Yes.

 

*All of AHI’s trainers are qualified “trainers” as defined by the new AB 1825 regulations. However, please note that if you choose to conduct training yourself using AHI’s CD presentation kit, you must either use a qualified “trainer” or have a qualified “trainer” present during the training to assist you. 

 

Why Choose AHI?

1. Our training course was developed by the sexual harassment knowledge experts at AHI.

AHI has been recognized nationwide as a leading publisher on sexual harassment and employment law for over 23 years. Our flagship newsletter, Manager's Legal Bulletin, has been training supervisors on how to avoid discrimination lawsuits since 1986.

Since 2004, AHI has been hired by over 100 organizations to conduct sexual harassment training for over 4,000 supervisors and employees. References are available upon request.

AHI has a dedicated team to provide customer service meeting the specific needs of every organization with whom we partner. These customer service professionals provide seamless scheduling and understand the necessity of making changes and scheduling classes with short notice due to business requirements.

AHI understands that it is essential for training to speak the language of an organization and use relevant examples targeted to the audience. Within the same organization, there can be variations based upon the skill and authority level of participants. In addition, each level of management has different legal responsibilities when it comes to the prevention of sexual harassment. That is why AHI developed two versions of its program — one for supervisors and one for employees.

2. Our training course has been approved to be in compliance with AB 1825 regulations by the California-based law firm, Dowling, Aaron & Keeler.

The firm is comprised of top lawyers in various disciplines, including real estate law, litigation, estate planning, healthcare law, general business law, employment law, intellectual property and public agency law.  One of the firm's attorneys, Mike Hogan, was recently selected by the Labor Relations Institute as one of the Top 100 Labor Attorneys in the United States, and another, David Dixon, was recently selected by Cal-SHRM to serve as the Legal Expert regarding Employee and Labor Relations matters in the SHRM California Learning System for the California HR Certification Exam.

3. All of AHI's trainers are qualified "trainers" as defined by the law.

 

"Everything went wonderful and Elle did a fantastic job." — Audrey Seven Gables

Our lead instructor, Elle Peji, is a Senior Trainer and Human Resource Consultant. Since 2000, she has designed, developed, and delivered training courses on topics including appropriate workplace behavior, diversity, sexual harassment prevention, discrimination in employment, workplace violence, liability prevention and management, conducting internal investigations, performance management, conflict management, and policy writing. She has conducted training courses on discrimination and harassment, both in person and live via the Internet, for over 1,000 supervisors and HR personnel from a wide variety of organizations.

 

Why should I train? What is the penalty for noncompliance?

If one of your employees files a claim of sexual harassment, you can expect a letter from the Department of Fair Employment & Housing (DFEH) requesting proof that you are in full compliance with the requirements of AB 1825. The letter will ask that you provide the number of supervisors you employ, the dates training was provided, the name and qualifications of the trainer, and copies of the training material provided. If found to be non-compliant, you can be ordered to train all of your supervisors within 60 days.

 

Worse yet, your employee's lawyer will argue that failure to train in accordance with the law demonstrates the organization's "reckless disregard" for the law, and thereby establishes a potential basis for punitive damages liability.

 

Don't waste your training dollars on programs that don't comply!

 

The DFEH will demand that you retrain all of your supervisors if they find your previous training does not comply.  We've made it cost-efficient and convenient for you to train everyone in your organization by offering the course in three convenient delivery methods...so you can pick what works best for you now and avoid costly lawsuits later.