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California’s new workplace violence prevention standards took effect on July 1, 2024.

As a result, California employers have a number of new legal obligations, including developing and implementing a Workplace Violence Prevention Plan; training employees on the Plan; identifying, evaluating and correcting workplace violence hazards; and various recordkeeping requirements.

California employers have six months left to comply with a new law that took effect on January 1, 2019, which requires virtually all California employers to provide sexual harassment prevention training to all employees. Specifically, by January 1, 2020, employers with five or more employees must provide one hour of sexual harassment prevention training to nonsupervisory employees and two hours of such training to supervisors.

A number of new laws took effect on January 1, 2019 which affect severance agreements and other settlement agreements entered into in California. Taken together, these new laws should prompt a thorough review of severance and other settlement agreements.