Illinois employers, remember that all employees must be certified by Dec. 31 each year to having received sexual harassment prevention training. Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed The Workplace Transparency Act last year after the sweeping legislation cleared both chambers of the General Assembly without opposition. 

 

By statutory mandate, the Illinois Department of Human Rights developed a training template, and a PowerPoint presentation is free at https://www2.illinois.gov/dhr/Training/Pages/State-of-Illinois-Sexual-Harassment-Prevention-Training-Model.aspx. Employees can scroll through it at their leisure, then complete and sign a certificate of completion that is on the last page of the presentation. 

 

Since there is no requirement in Illinois that the training be delivered live, or even be delivered by a qualified trainer, scrolling through the PowerPoint (or identical pdf file) actually satisfies the statutory requirement.