Starting January 1, 2020, all Illinois employers will have to start providing sexual harassment training for their employees.
It’s part of a new law called the Workplace Transparency Act. Every employer of any size, whether public or private, will now have to provide training based on a model the state’s Department of Human Rights will come up with. That department will offer a training course for free, or employers can opt to buy courses from a private company.
Businesses will have until the end of 2020 to provide harassment training. New employees will have to be trained within 90 days of their start date.
Non-disclosure agreements and other documents intended to keep employees silent will be limited under the new law.
