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

The law expands mandatory workplace training to help employees and supervisors recognize, report, and confront speech targeting people for protected characteristics.

What the law does ​

• Requires anti-hate-speech training as part of the existing sexual-harassment training requirement starting January 1, 2028.
• Requires practical guidance on workplace speech that vilifies, humiliates, or incites hatred based on protected characteristics.
• Allows existing training on unlawful harassment and abusive conduct based on protected characteristics to satisfy the new requirement.

Who it affects ​

• California employers with five or more employees.
• Supervisory and nonsupervisory employees in California.
• The Civil Rights Department, which administers the training requirements and may seek compliance orders.