AB 1803

Employment: sexual harassment training and education: anti-hate speech training

This bill would require California employers to add anti-hate speech training to the workplace training they are already required to provide on sexual harassment and abusive conduct prevention. Employees and supervisors would receive this additional training as part of the same existing mandatory sessions.

The California Fair Employment and Housing Act makes specified employment practices unlawful, including the harassment of an employee directly by the employer or indirectly by agents of the employer with the employer’s knowledge. Under existing law, the Civil Rights Department administers these provisions. Existing law requires a specified employer with 5 or more employees to, by January 1, 2021, provide at least 2 hours of classroom or other effective interactive training and education regarding sexual harassment to all supervisory employees and at least one hour of classroom or other effective interactive training and education regarding sexual harassment to all nonsupervisory employees in California and, after that date, once every 2 years. Existing law requires an employer to include prevention of abusive conduct as a component of that training and education. This bill would additionally require that the above-described training and education include, as a component of the training and education, anti-hate speech training.