After spending nearly two years on revisions, the California Office of Administrative Law approved final regulations for the state's mandatory sexual harassment training law on July 18. The AB1825 regulations specify high standards for all forms of harassment training, especially e-learning.

AB1825 required employers with more than 50 employees doing business in California to provide sexual harassment prevention training to all supervisors every two years starting in 2005. Newly hired or promoted supervisors must be trained within six months of assuming a supervisory position. The new regulations governing that training take effect Aug. 17, 2007.

“The purpose of the regulations is to provide clarity to employers on the specific requirements of the California sexual harassment training law, as well as practical guidelines for compliance,” said Shanti Atkins, president and CEO of ELT, a provider of online compliance training. “The regulations have set a high bar for what constitutes effective training.”