Labor/Employment,
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Oct. 7, 2025
Why workplace harassment persists despite the rules
Despite more than 20 years of mandatory harassment training in California, workplace sexual harassment complaints have risen sharply, highlighting that compliance-focused programs fail to change culture and that effective prevention requires ongoing, interactive, and inclusive approaches emphasizing bystander intervention, relevance and psychological safety.
Leonid M. Zilberman
Partner
Wilson Turner Kosmo LLP
Phone: (619) 236-9600
Email: lzilberman@wilsonturnerkosmo.com
Lonny practices employment law, diversity, equity, and inclusion as well as mediation and alternative dispute resolution and provides anti-harassment and other employment-related training to California Employers.
It's been twenty years since AB 1825 was signed into law by Governor Schwarzenegger. At that time, California was the first state to require sexual and other anti-harassment training for supervisors in companies with 50 or more employees. A significant expansion occurred fourteen years later with SB 1343, lowering the employee threshold to five and extending the requirement to include non-supervisory employees. Millions of Californians have now been trained on how to "not har...
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