The Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) generally requires employers with five (5) or more employees to provide sexual harassment prevention training to supervisory and nonsupervisory employees every two (2) years. The training is required to address prevention of abusive conduct and specified forms of harassment, discrimination, and retaliation.
Effective January 1, 2028, AB 1803 requires that mandatory sexual harassment prevention training incorporate an anti-hate-speech component. The training must provide supervisory and nonsupervisory employees with practical guidance concerning recognizing, reporting, and confronting workplace speech that “vilifies, humiliates, or incites” hatred against people based on protected characteristics identified in the FEHA. The statute does not increase the minimum duration of the required training.
AB 1803 takes effect January 1, 2028.
AB 1803 amends Government Code Section 12950.1
