California’s Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) launched a free online sexual-harassment-prevention program that meets the training requirements for nonsupervisory employees in the state.
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/shrm/california/~3/hvlPqxO00u0/california-sexual-harassment-prevention-training-program.aspx

A jury awarded a professor more than $13 million in damages in a gender-discrimination lawsuit—but a California appeals court reversed the verdict, finding that the trial court committed a series of “grave errors.”
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/shrm/california/~3/Slx1cJP-jGM/calif-court-blocks-gender-discrimination-verdict-against-ucla.aspx

A California appeals court ruled that under an employer’s unlimited paid-time-off (PTO) policy, an employee actually accrued vacation days as she worked and was entitled to be paid for unused days when her employment ended.
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/shrm/california/~3/IBjzadakxXw/california-court-provides-roadmap-for-unlimited-pto-policies.aspx

A jury found that a hospital and medical group created a hostile work environment for three female nurses, but the nurses had not named the medical group in the administrative complaint, so their claims against the group should not have been allowed to go to trial.
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/shrm/california/~3/mZWYzlDaLKE/nurse-bias-lawsuit-against-medical-group-should-have-been-dismissed.aspx

California Gov. Gavin Newsom just enacted sweeping changes to the state’s workers’ compensation standards, providing that a broad swath of California workers who contract COVID-19 are presumed to have a workplace injury covered by the workers’ compensation system.
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/shrm/california/~3/gLd6EoWUJNo/most-california-employees-with-covid-19-presumed-covered-by-workers-comp.aspx