California’s Fair Employment and Housing Council ("FEHC") has adopted new regulations under the Fair Employment and Housing Act ("FEHA") that take effect April 1. For the most part, the new regulations reflect recent changes in the law (e.g. making clear that FEHA protects interns and volunteers and persons providing services pursuant to a contract). However, the new regulations contain an important new substantive requirement that employers adopt a written discrimination, harassment, and retaliation prevention policy that meets specified requirements. According to the FEHC, this new policy requirement is in furtherance of employers’ obligation to prevent (and not just correct) discrimination, harassment, and retaliation in the workplace, and is in addition to employers’ existing obligation to provide its workforce with a copy of the DFEH brochure on sexual harassment (DFEH-185) and/or an alternative anti-harassment policy that complies with Government Code section 12950.
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