News from the GCVCC:
The Greater Coachella Valley Chamber of Commerce is extending FREE Sexual Harassment Prevention Training to our members and their employees and supervisors. The training will be conducted by a local attorney, Karen Sloat, and certificates of completion will be issued to their employer upon completion of the program. This training will satisfy state requirements in accordance with SB 778, requiring an employer with 5 or more employees to provide such training to their employees every two years. This training is also a best practice for all employers. This training can cost $20 – $50 per employee online or through local programs, the chamber is providing this training free for participating members.
Employees are required to attend one session with one (1) hour of training, supervisors will need to remain for an additional 2nd hour of training (2 hours total). The training sessions available are as follows:
Tuesday Oct 1, 9 AM to 11 AM (Hour One Employees + Supervisors, Hour Two Supervisor Only)
Indio Performing Arts Center
45175 Fargo St
Indio, CA 92201
To register yourself or an employee(s) for this session, click HERE.
Thursday Oct 17, 3 PM to 5 PM (Hour One Employees + Supervisors, Hour Two Supervisor Only)
Brandman University
75105 Merle Dr
Unit 800, Bldg B
Palm Desert, CA 92211
To register yourself or an employee(s) for this session, click HERE.
Tuesday Oct 22, 9 AM to 10 AM (This Session Employee Only)
Doubletree Resort
67967 Vista Chino
Cathedral City, CA 92234
To register yourself or an employee(s) for this session, click HERE.
To ensure as many businesses as possible can take advantage of this training, please limit your registrations to no more than ten (10) employees/supervisors per session, per employer (member). Limit 75 participants per class. First come, first serve.
About SB 778
SB 778, as amended, Committee on Labor, Public Employment and Retirement. Employers: sexual harassment training: requirements.
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 Department of Fair Employment and Housing administers these provisions. Existing law, by January 1, 2020, requires an employer with 5 or more employees to provide at least 2 hours of classroom or other effective interactive training and education regarding sexual harassment to all supervisory employees and at least 1 hour of classroom or other effective interactive training and education regarding sexual harassment to all nonsupervisory employees in California within 6 months of their assumption of a position. Existing law also specifies that an employer who has provided this training to an employee after January 1, 2019, is not required to provide sexual harassment training and education by the January 1, 2020, deadline.
This bill would instead require an employer with 5 or more employees to provide the above-described training and education by January 1, 2021, and thereafter once every 2 years. The bill would require new nonsupervisory employees to be provided the training within 6 months of hire and new supervisory employees to be provided the training within 6 months of the assumption of a supervisory position. The bill would also specify that an employer who has provided this training and education in 2019 is not required to provide it again until 2 years thereafter. The bill would make other related changes to those provisions requiring sexual harassment training.
This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
About Karen Sloat
The training will be delivered by Karen Sloat, a local attorney that has practiced law for over 30 years in California, Colorado and Hawaii and is known as a lawyer who strives for integrity and excellence. Her focus is on employment law, mainly representing employers and managers; transactions and contracts; and litigation in a number of areas and venues throughout Southern California.
For more information regarding this program, contract chamber staff at 760.347.0676.