Pathways / Workplace Conduct & HR Compliance

Train every employee. Prove it held up when the claim lands.

Harassment and discrimination training isn't a checkbox. It's your legal defense. When a charge is filed, the employer who can show real, documented, recurring training limits liability. The one who can't, pays.

This pathway trains your entire workforce on the conduct rules state and federal law require, then hands your HR lead the completion records, the manager dashboard, and the audit-evidence export that prove the program actually ran.

5Courses in the pathway
All-staffWhole workforce, not just managers
Every 2 yrsBuilt-in renewal on the mandate clock
Chapter 01 · The stakes

One claim. No training records. No defense.

The Faragher-Ellerth defense lets an employer limit liability in a harassment claim, but only with proof of a real prevention program and a working reporting channel. No documented training, no defense. Then punitive damages are on the table.

01

The mandate is not optional

California, New York, Illinois, Connecticut, Maine, Delaware, and Washington require harassment training on a fixed clock. Miss it and you're out of compliance before anyone files anything.

02

Untracked training is the same as none

A registrar, a regulator, or a plaintiff's attorney wants dated proof each person was trained. A binder of sign-in sheets nobody can find is not evidence. A clean completion record is.

03

The second claim is the retaliation

Most employers survive the first complaint and lose on how a manager reacted to it. Untrained supervisors create the retaliation claim that costs more than the original.

Chapter 02 · What your team trains on

Five courses. The full conduct obligation, covered.

Each course is built by a practitioner, runs interactive, and ends in a dated completion record your HR lead can pull on demand. Start with the two mandated harassment courses, expand into discrimination, retaliation, and investigations.

01

Sexual Harassment Prevention — Supervisors

The two-hour supervisor training California and five other states require by law, refreshed every two years.

CA SB 1343 2 Hours Title VII · FEHA
What's inside
  • What harassment legally is: quid pro quo and hostile work environment under FEHA and Title VII
  • Every protected category, including gender identity, gender expression, and sexual orientation
  • Abusive conduct and the line into a hostile environment (AB 2053)
  • A supervisor's legal duty the moment they're on notice: recognize, report, respond
  • Bystander intervention and building a workplace people actually report into
  • Gray-area scenarios supervisors get wrong, worked through to the right call
The outcome

Every supervisor finishes able to spot, stop, and correctly handle conduct issues before they become claims.

DeliverableDated 2-hour completion certificate satisfying SB 1343 and the parallel supervisor mandates in NY, IL, CT, ME, and DE.
02

Sexual Harassment Prevention — Employees

The one-hour all-employee companion course that closes the other half of the mandate.

CA SB 1343 1 Hour All staff
What's inside
  • What harassment and retaliation look like from the employee's seat
  • The protected categories every worker is covered under
  • How to report, and what the company is legally required to do next
  • Why silence protects no one, and what changes when people speak up
  • Scenario practice grounded in real complaints, not abstractions
The outcome

Your whole non-supervisory workforce is trained, aware, and on record, the same way the law expects.

Deliverable1-hour completion certificate satisfying the employee-side SB 1343 mandate for every worker.
03

Workplace Discrimination & EEO

The federal anti-discrimination training covering every protected class your managers make decisions about.

Title VII ADA · ADEA PWFA 2023
What's inside
  • Protected classes under Title VII, the ADA, ADEA, GINA, and the 2023 Pregnant Workers Fairness Act
  • Disparate treatment versus disparate impact, in plain language
  • Where discrimination actually hides: hiring, promotion, pay, discipline, scheduling
  • Reasonable accommodation and the interactive process managers must engage
  • The documentation that defends a fair decision after the fact
The outcome

Managers recognize and avoid the everyday decisions that generate EEOC charges.

DeliverableCompletion certificate plus a manager-ready reference on the protected-class rules behind every people decision.
04

Anti-Retaliation & Whistleblower Protection

Most employers survive the first complaint and lose on the retaliation that follows. This is how managers avoid it.

Title VII §704 OSHA 11(c) SOX
What's inside
  • What legally counts as protected activity, and how broad it really is
  • The forms retaliation takes, including the subtle ones managers don't see coming
  • Exactly what a manager should and should not do once a complaint lands
  • Protecting the complainant, the witnesses, and the company at the same time
The outcome

Managers handle the post-complaint window without turning one claim into two.

DeliverableCompletion certificate plus a do/don't playbook for the days after a complaint.
05

Workplace Investigations for HR & Managers

A documented, competent investigation is the core of the Faragher-Ellerth defense. This builds that discipline.

HR & Managers Defensible Process
What's inside
  • Intake and scoping: what to do in the first 24 hours after a complaint
  • Interviewing complainant, respondent, and witnesses without tainting the record
  • Gathering and preserving evidence the right way
  • Credibility determinations and reaching findings that hold up
  • Documentation and corrective action a regulator or court will accept
The outcome

HR runs investigations that stand up to a regulator, a plaintiff's attorney, and a jury.

DeliverableCompletion certificate plus an investigation template set your team reuses on every case.
Chapter 03 · State coverage

Mapped to the states that actually mandate it.

The harassment courses are built to the specific hour and content requirements of every state with a training mandate, starting with California's SB 1343. One pathway keeps a multi-state workforce compliant.

CaliforniaSB 1343 — 2 hrs supervisors, 1 hr employees, every 2 years
New YorkState + NYC annual mandate, all employees
IllinoisIHRA annual training for all employees
Connecticut2 hrs supervisors and employees
MaineWithin one year of hire
DelawareInteractive training for employers of 50+
WashingtonRequired for hospitality and isolated workers
Everywhere elseBest-practice defense under federal EEOC guidance
Chapter 04 · What every seat includes

The training is the easy part. The proof is the product.

Anyone can show a video. What an auditor, a board, or opposing counsel asks for is evidence the program ran and worked. That's what your HR lead walks away with.

Manager Dashboard

Your HR lead sees who's trained, who's overdue, and who's coming up for renewal, across the whole workforce, in one view.

Audit-Evidence Package PDF

A single export, on demand, that shows dated completion across your team. The document you hand a regulator or attach to a defense.

AI Workbench

An assistant scoped to conduct and HR compliance that helps managers draft the policy, the response, or the investigation memo they need.

Renewal on the clock

The 2-year mandate becomes automatic. The dashboard flags renewals before they lapse, so you never fall out of compliance by accident.

The offer

See the whole pathway in 30 minutes.

We walk your HR or operations lead through the courses, show the manager dashboard live, and export the audit-evidence PDF end to end. After the demo you'll know exactly how this fits your headcount and where pricing lands.

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