Limiting Employer Liability for Sexual Harassment in California

Why Should You Attend:

Besides being legally required to take this course, there are a multitude of reasons to want to prevent sexual harassment in your workplace. There are significant personal consequences for you and supervisors for engaging in sexual harassment or failing to fix it if it does happen:

• You could be accused in an investigation
• You could be subject to disciplinary action
• Your career could be ruined
• You could be part of a civil lawsuit
• You could be personally liable

Moreover, there are detrimental consequences for the workplace:

• Morale problems
• Tarnished reputations
• Decreased trust
• Reduced productivity
• Increased absenteeism
• Increased workload
• Increased turnover
• Increased recruiting costs

This course will help you avoid these common issues.

Areas Covered in the Webinar:

• Explain the primary laws which prohibit workplace harassment
• Define sexual harassment
• Clarify what is not sexual harassment
• Describe the different types of sexual harassment
• Discuss consequences of engaging in unlawful harassment
• Examine the protocol for addressing complaints
• Analyze how to prevent harassment
• Discuss the new requirements set forth in the regulations which went into effect April 1, 2016
• Discuss the prevention of abusive conduct

Who Will Benefit:

• Supervisors
• Human resources staff and executives
• Recruiters
• Organizational development managers
• HR practitioners
• CEOs
• COOs and in-house counsel
• Payroll staff and executives
• All California employers

Instructor Profile:

Jacquiline M. Wagner, Esq., is the president of JMW Seminars, LLC - working to improve the performance of employees and supervisors. Ms. Wagner uniquely understands the needs of business owners and employers when it comes to educating employees. For almost twenty years, she has enjoyed the honor of training hundreds of employees and supervisors in an assortment of industries concerning all aspects of employment law.

Stemming from that experience, she has designed a wide array of engaging human resources, employment law, motivational, business acumen, professional development, continuing education and leadership courses and presentations.

In addition to spearheading JMW Seminars, LLC, Ms. Wagner is a principal human resources and continuing education trainer on behalf of the Office of General Counsel for the Los Angeles Unified School District, where she serves as Assistant General Counsel.

Topic Background:

Sexual harassment and the liability employers suffer from allegations of sexual harassment are no laughing matter. But that doesn’t mean that a sexual harassment prevention course must be dry, cold or clinical. In fact, boring and admonishing sexual harassment courses tend to invite mockery and disdain from their audiences. Worse, participants in that sort of course don’t seem to give credence to the information presented.

Pursuant to California’s AB 1825, employers with 50 or more employees must provide at least two hours of effective interactive training regarding sexual harassment and the prevention of abusive conduct to all supervisory employees, and to all new supervisory employees within six months of assuming a supervisory position. Thereafter, covered employers must provide sexual harassment training to each supervisory employee once every two years.

While not required by AB 1825 to provide the sexual harassment prevention training to its supervisors, small business owners and their supervisors will benefit from this course since the anti-harassment provisions of California’s Fair Employment and Housing Act apply to employers with five or more employees. In other words, small business employers can still be held liable for sexual harassment even though they aren’t required to provide a course on sexual harassment prevention.

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