New York Sexual Harassment Training
New York Sexual Harassment Training
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What Are the New York Sexual Harassment Training Requirements?
The New York State Human Rights Law requires every employer in New York State to provide employees with sexual harassment prevention training every year. The law applies to all employers regardless of size, and includes all workers, regardless of immigration status, including: exempt, non-exempt, part-time, seasonal, and temporary.
The Law (Section 201-g of the New York Labor Law) requires employers to provide:
- Annual sexual harassment prevention training
- A sexual harassment notice distributed prior to, or at the start of the first day of work, which includes:
- A sexual harassment prevention policy
- An explanation of sexual harassment according to the Department of Labor and the Division of Human Rights
- A copy of the training
- The notice, policy, and training must be provided in both English and the employee’s primary language if it is Spanish, Chinese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Haitian-Creole, Bengali, or Italian.
Employee Requirement
- Annual training
- New employees must be trained within 30 days of hire, including:
- Part-time employees
- Employees who work just 1 day in New York (even if based out of state)
- Employees who work in New York even if their company headquarters is located out of state
Manager Requirement
- Annual training
- New supervisors and managers must be trained within 30 days of hire or assuming supervisory position
Additionally, New York State requires Contractors who bid on state contracts to certify under penalty of perjury that they have provided annual sexual harassment prevention training to all of their employees, even those outside of the state of New York.
Additional Topic Requirements in New York
- Definition of unlawful sexual harassment
- Sexual harassment based on gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, LGBTQ+
- Sex stereotyping
- Bystander intervention
- Formal complaint process/ contact information for NY/NYC
- Recourse and remedies
- Explanation that severe/pervasive legal standard is no longer required to prove hostile work environment based on sex
Does Atana's Sexual Harassment Training Comply with All New York Mandates?
Yes. Atana's comprehensive New York sexual harassment prevention training solution is fully compliant and even comes with a 200% compliance guarantee.
Yes. Atana's comprehensive New York sexual harassment prevention training solution is fully compliant and even comes with a 200% compliance guarantee.
Once & For All consists of 11 modules overall as well as a pre- and post-test. Organizations select the modules they need or want to meet city/state requirements and achieve their training goals. The tables below show mandatory and optional modules for New York employees and managers.
Modules are fully interactive and include video clips, knowledge checks and behavioral assessments. They are available in English and Spanish.
Once & For All consists of 11 modules overall as well as a pre- and post-test. Organizations select the modules they need or want to meet city/state requirements and achieve their training goals. The tables below show mandatory and optional modules for New York employees and managers.
Modules are fully interactive and include video clips, knowledge checks and behavioral assessments. They are available in English and Spanish.
Multi-State Deployment
If your organization has employees in New York as well as in states with a different or no sexual harassment training mandate, we will work with you to ensure the most effective deployment possible. Explore different state mandates in our interactive Sexual Harassment Prevention Training Compliance Guide.
The Strategic Opportunity Harassment Prevention Training Can Offer
Compliance training is one of the most underutilized strategic advantages in today’s organizations. Done right, this training can go beyond harassment prevention instruction to:
- Assess employee attitudes
- Capture what learners will actually do
- Provide insights and tools to overcome barriers to real behavior change
As one of Atana's premium behavior-based courses, Once & For All enables you to gain these advantages. It combines immersive learning with scientifically rigorous behavioral assessments embedded in the course. Aggregated learner data, visualized on a dashboard, yields insights that help organizations surface cultural blind spots early, target interventions precisely, and connect training to outcomes leaders care about such as productivity, retention, and risk reduction.
Learn more about Atana's Organizational Insights.
Compliance training is one of the most underutilized strategic advantages in today’s organizations. Done right, this training can go beyond harassment prevention instruction to:
- Assess employee attitudes
- Capture what learners will actually do
- Provide insights and tools to overcome barriers to real behavior change
As one of Atana's premium behavior-based courses, Once & For All enables you to gain these advantages. It combines immersive learning with scientifically rigorous behavioral assessments embedded in the course. Aggregated learner data, visualized on a dashboard, yields insights that help organizations surface cultural blind spots early, target interventions precisely, and connect training to outcomes leaders care about such as productivity, retention, and risk reduction.
Learn more about Atana's Organizational Insights.