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25 Years Later: It’s time to reimagine compliance training

The compliance training industry has been around for 25 years – ever since the U.S. Supreme Court issued two sexual harassment rulings giving employers a defense to sexual harassment claims...

Workplace Harassment Training: Important Topics to Cover

The Importance of Harassment Prevention Training Building a positive workplace culture is integral to the long-term success of any business. One way to promote such an environment is by providing...

Eliminating Discrimination Against Natural Hair in the Workplace

Throughout every industry, Black people experience disproportionate bias and discrimination in the workplace due to their natural hair and the policies in place that create an unequal environment. The notion...

Preventing Workplace Harassment in 2023

The Changing Nature of Harassment Harassment claims look very different than they did five (5) years ago. Harassment in 2023 will primarily rely on context and the nuances of a...

The Death of Compliance Training

Turning Corporate Values Into Employee Skills For decades, businesses have promoted their corporate values -  on websites, public filings and corporate policies - as rules to follow.  Compliance training was...

Harassment Prevention Training Bills: Chicago, Florida, New Jersey, Massachusetts 

Chicago, Florida WOKE bill, and pending harassment training bills As part of Emtrain’s community, we want to ensure you’re in the know of upcoming state harassment training and bills that...

Harassment Training: Measure, Score, and Develop Employees’ Pro-Social Behaviors

Harassment prevention training should address pro-social skill development; not just policies and laws to memorize Have you ever wondered why we still have so much harassment and discrimination litigation 25...

How DEI Relates to Harassment and Risk

I was helping a large multinational firm to develop diversity training programs when the executive in charge of the department asked us to train on employee relations topics such as...

Remote Workplace Harassment: 4 ways to Prevent

Workplace harassment comes in all forms. As large companies like Salesforce commit to full-time work from home schedules, HR and Legal teams need to be vigilant of new forms of...

Evolving Harassment Training in 2021

For 30 years, companies have trained on sexual harassment prevention without connecting it to a broader workplace culture strategy. Emtrain is changing that in 2021. I helped change the law...

Harassment Policies & Training Around the Globe

Increasingly, all regions around the globe are converging on a basic workplace requirement to take steps to prevent employee harassment based on personal characteristics legally protected in that region. Sexual...

Harassment Training Amendment (CA)

Effective January 1, 2021 for California Employers The benefit of experience is practical understanding of what works and what doesn’t, combined with greater access to influence events.  In the last...

Insights from the DOJ’s New Compliance Training Standards

Twenty-five times in 18 pages – that’s how many times the word “train” or “training” appears in the Department of Justice’s Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Program’s original and updated guidance...

New York (NYS/NY) State Sexual Harassment Prevention Training Upcoming Deadline

Training for Businesses With Employees in New York/New York State Employers in New York are required not only to adopt and distribute written sexual harassment prevention policies, but also to...

How to Announce Harassment Prevention Training: Making an Impact

“Hey everyone! It’s time for your MANDATORY harassment training!” When your employees and managers hear this chant, well, they want to run for cover. As someone who has delivered this...

Illinois Harassment Prevention Law Requires Annual Training

As of January 1, 2020, all Illinois employers are required to provide sexual harassment prevention training to their employees every year, regardless of the size of the company.  Illinois Governor...

New York Expands Harassment & Discrimination Laws

Less than one year after sexual harassment training became mandatory under New York State and New York City law, the state legislature has enacted extensive reforms to anti-discrimination laws. Here’s...

CA and NY Sexual Harassment Mandates Frequently Asked Questions

Employers in California and New York must now meet new sexual harassment training requirements to provide to all of their employees. Do you know how your company plans to comply?...

5 Ways MeToo Will Continue to Impact Global Companies in 2019

During 2018 we saw the ongoing impact of the #MeToo movement on harassment law and practice around the world. As we enter 2019, this sharp global focus on combating harassment...

Who Will Manage Sexual Harassment Risk in 2019—HR or Business Compliance?

About a month ago, I participated in a conference for ethics and compliance professionals— people who manage enterprise risk stemming from antitrust, intellectual property, privacy, information security, and other business...

Isn’t Training Just Teaching Employees How to Sue Me?

When I first began advocating for training all employees on sexual harassment prevention, a few companies agreed that this would be an effective way to address workplace harassment. But most...
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