Loading chat...

CT HB05271

Bill

Status

Introduced

1/14/2019

Primary Sponsor

Labor and Public Employees Committee

Click for details

Origin

House of Representatives

2019 General Assembly

AI Summary

  • Increases mandatory sexual harassment training for employers with 50 or more employees from two to four hours per calendar year for all supervisory employees.

  • Requires all new supervisory employees to complete the four-hour training within six months of assuming a supervisory position.

  • Training must cover federal and state statutory provisions on sexual harassment, employer policies regarding sexual harassment, and examples of conduct constituting harassment ranging from verbal harassment to sexual assault.

  • Requires employers with three or more employees to post information in a prominent location about the illegality of sexual harassment and available remedies for victims.

  • Removes the provision that employers completing training after October 1, 1991 were not required to provide training a second time; becomes effective October 1, 2019.

Legislative Description

An Act Increasing Sexual Harassment Prevention Training.

Last Action

Referred by House to Committee on Appropriations

4/10/2019

Committee Referrals

Appropriations4/10/2019
Labor and Public Employees1/14/2019

Full Bill Text

No bill text available