CA AB2053

Requires employers with 50+ employees to include prevention of abusive conduct as a component of mandatory sexual harassment training for supervisory employees

Defines "abusive conduct" as workplace conduct with malice that a reasonable person would find hostile, offensive, and unrelated to legitimate business interests, including repeated verbal abuse, threatening conduct, or sabotage of work performance

Maintains that failure to reach a particular individual with required training does not automatically create employer liability, and compliance does not shield employers from sexual harassment liability

Allows the state department to seek compliance orders against employers who violate training requirements

Clarifies that these minimum training requirements should not discourage employers from providing longer, more frequent, or more comprehensive workplace harassment and discrimination training