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Today, California’s Fair Employment & Housing Commission (FEHC) adopted revisions to the state’s AB 1825 sexual harassment training regulations. The revisions are designed to address changes requested by the Office of Administrative Law (OAL), which rejected the FEHC’s November 2006 regulations approximately three weeks ago.

In the world of employment law, things are always evolving, changing, and adapting. Issues that were hot 10 years ago aren’t necessarily at the at top of the list anymore. And if your training is based on trends from 10 years ago, it may not be doing enough to protect your organization.

A few months back, I wrote a post regarding the State of Illinois’ ethics training debacle. In short, thousands of training certifications were yanked because employees were able to blast through the State’s online course too quickly. (The training program was purchased through an external vendor.) Some employees spent less than 10 minutes completing the State’s annual ethics training, which requires 58,000 employees to review approximately 80 screens, including five “self help” questions, and an end-of-course quiz. (See State Employees Able to Blast Through Vendor’s Online Compliance Training – Completion Certifications Invalidated.)