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Training built around therules that apply to your workplace.

Most off-the-shelf harassment training is generic content with a state's name added to it. We build training around your employees' work locations, headcount and industry, map the materials to the requirements identified during scoping, and include employment-attorney review before delivery.

Workplace training requirements

Selected requirements in our initial training footprint.

This matrix provides a high-level snapshot of selected state and local sexual-harassment-prevention training requirements currently supported by The People Pocket. It is not an exhaustive list of every federal, state, local or industry-specific obligation. Each engagement is scoped using the employees' work locations, employer headcount, industry, job responsibilities and other relevant facts.

Legal sources last reviewed: July 15, 2026

Illinois

Authority
775 ILCS 5/2-109(B)–(C); 775 ILCS 5/2-110 for restaurants and bars
Illinois Human Rights ActIDHR training FAQ
Who must be trained
All employees working in Illinois. Restaurants and bars have additional industry-specific requirements.
Timing
At least once each calendar year. New employees should be trained as soon as possible after hire and no later than December 31 of the year in which they are hired.
Key requirements
The training must meet or exceed the minimum statutory content. Restaurants and bars must provide supplemental industry-specific training in addition to the generally applicable Illinois training.

Chicago

Authority
Chicago Municipal Code § 6-010-040
Chicago Commission on Human Relations
Who must be trained
Employees working in Chicago. Supervisors and managers have an increased harassment-prevention training requirement.
Timing
Annual.
Key requirements
Employees must complete at least one hour of sexual-harassment-prevention training annually. Supervisors and managers must complete at least two hours annually. All employees must also complete one hour of bystander-intervention training annually.

California

Authority
Cal. Gov. Code § 12950.1; 2 Cal. Code Regs. § 11024
CRD Sexual Harassment Prevention Training FAQ
Who must be trained
Employers with five or more employees must provide two hours of training to supervisory employees and one hour to nonsupervisory employees covered by the California requirement.
Timing
Every two years. New nonsupervisory employees must generally be trained within six months of hire, and new supervisors within six months of assuming a supervisory position. Special accelerated deadlines apply to certain temporary and seasonal employees.
Key requirements
The training must address sexual harassment, harassment based on gender identity, gender expression and sexual orientation, and abusive conduct. The training must meet California's applicable interactivity and trainer requirements.

New York State

Who must be trained
All employees who work in New York State.
Timing
Annual.
Key requirements
Training must be interactive and meet or exceed the state's minimum standards. The current state model includes examples involving remote work and third-party conduct, but those particular scenarios are not separately enumerated statutory requirements.

New York City

Authority
N.Y.C. Administrative Code § 8-107(30); Local Law 96 of 2018
NYC Commission on Human Rights training FAQs
Who must be trained
Employers that had 15 or more employees, or one or more domestic workers, at the applicable time must provide training. The requirement generally covers employees, interns and certain independent contractors who work more than 80 hours in a calendar year and for at least 90 days.
Timing
Annual. Employers should provide training to new personnel as soon as practicable once it is expected that the individual will meet the coverage thresholds.
Key requirements
Training must address bystander intervention, retaliation, available complaint processes, the employer's internal complaint process and the responsibilities of supervisors and managers. New York City and New York State requirements may be covered in a properly designed combined training. Training records must be retained for at least three years.

Connecticut

Authority
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 46a-54(15)(C)
Conn. Gen. Stat. Chapter 814c
Who must be trained
Employers with three or more employees must train all employees. Employers with fewer than three employees must train their supervisory employees.
Timing
Initial training must be two hours and must generally be completed within six months of hire or assumption of a covered supervisory position. Employers must provide supplemental training that updates employees on the content at least every ten years.
Key requirements
Training must cover applicable federal and Connecticut sexual-harassment law and remedies available to victims.

Delaware

Who must be trained
Employers with 50 or more employees in Delaware. Employers are not required to train applicants, independent contractors or employees who have been employed for fewer than six continuous months.
Timing
New employees must be trained within one year after employment begins and every two years thereafter. New supervisors must receive the additional supervisor training within one year after becoming a supervisor and every two years thereafter.
Key requirements
Training must be interactive. Supervisors must receive additional training regarding their responsibilities for preventing and correcting sexual harassment and the prohibition against retaliation.

Maine

Authority
26 M.R.S. § 807
26 M.R.S. § 807
Who must be trained
All new employees in workplaces with 15 or more employees. Supervisors and managers require additional training.
Timing
New employees must be trained within one year after employment begins. Supervisory and managerial employees must receive the additional training within one year after employment begins.
Key requirements
The training must address applicable state and federal law, examples, internal and external complaint procedures, contact information and retaliation protections. Employers must retain training records for at least three years. Separate workplace-posting and annual written-notice obligations also apply.

Washington

Authority
RCW 49.60.515, effective January 1, 2026
RCW 49.60.515
Who must be trained
Hotels, motels, retail entities, security entities and property-services contractors that employ an isolated employee. Covered managers, supervisors and isolated employees must be trained.
Timing
Mandatory training is required, but the statute does not establish a general annual retraining interval.
Key requirements
Training must address sexual assault, sexual harassment, sexual discrimination, reporting protections, panic-button use and management response. Completion of the mandatory training must be documented. Property-services contractors have separate annual reporting obligations.

This is a selected, high-level summary rather than a compliance determination. Each completed engagement includes a citation crosswalk identifying the authorities reviewed for that employer's agreed scope.

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Client-branded slide deck (PPTX + PDF) sized to your headcount, industry, and jurisdiction

Facilitator notes keyed to each slide, what to say, what to emphasize, where the authority lands

Attendee acknowledgment form + sign-in sheet, both attorney-reviewed

Why bespoke, not off-the-shelf

Because useful training has to reflect both the law and the workplace.

Written for your workplace

Scenarios come from your industry and your reporting chain, not a generic corporate office. A dispensary, a restaurant, and a warehouse should not sit through the same examples, and the scenarios should reflect those differences.

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An employment attorney reviews the module for the jurisdictions, facts and assumptions included in the engagement. The reviewer memo identifies the attorney, the authorities reviewed, the date of review and any material limitations or open items.

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