California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill requiring companies that hire janitors to make sure janitors take sexual assault training every other year, and pay $200 per participant for sessions with under 10 janitors present, and $8 for sessions with 10 or more janitors.
The bill also requires the government to pay UCLA for a study on janitorial wage theft, collective bargaining, gender and race, and create a commission to make recommendations based on the study; the study, commission, and enforcement have a $1 million starting budget and $818,000 budget in the years thereafter.
Before the bill, the state required companies to pay a flat $65 rate per janitor for biannual sexual assault training. The bill not only raises rates to $200 for small janitor sessions and $80 for larger janitor sessions respectively, requires that prices for these sessions be indexed to last year’s increase to the California Price Index, or at the discretion of the California Labor Commissioner “as needed.”
Trainings can only be completed through a “qualified organization” specialized in janitorial sexual harassment training, a list of which is available from the State of California Department of Industrial Relations. Trainings are done by “peers,” or “promotoras” who have been janitors or property service workers for at least two years and received at least 40 hours of sexual assault advocacy training from a qualified organization. […]
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