Dive Brief:
- With the the new overtime rule taking effect in just over four months (Dec. 1), wage and hour training would should receive a strong focus when it comes to employment law training. Yet, according to a recent survey of planned training topics, wage and hour training finished dead last, at 29%.
- The survey, from Navex Global, an ethics and compliance software and services firm, also found that of employers offering wage and hour training, 23% said that the training will be given just once, 48% will train one or more times per year, 24% will educate every two years, and 5% will train every three or more years.
- With the overtime law looming, insufficient attention is being paid to the potential risks, and that could indicate a glaring flaw in a comprehensive training program.
Dive Insight:
Of all the employment law training taking place, the survey's leading employment topic was workplace harassment, with 76% of 644 employers providing anti-harassment training in the next two to three years. That's an interesting number considering the recent 30-year EEOC analysis that found even with anti-harassment training being pushed hard by employers, it was just not enough.
The EEOC decided initiatives around the issue needed a "reboot" – moving away from pure risk management and instead building a "culture of civility and respect" that discourages harassment in the first place.
Other top employment law training topics were discrimination (63%), abusive conduct and bullying (53%) workplace violence (51%), diversity and inclusion (50%) and Americans with Disabilities Act reasonable accommodations (31%).
