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EduNeering Introduces “Best Practices” in Sexual Harassment Training

Compliance with 2006 California regulations part of new EduNeering offering and subject of November 16 Webinar



October 30, 2006 - Princeton, New Jersey - EduNeering, the leading provider of knowledge management solutions to improve regulatory compliance and business performance, has introduced new curricula to help companies prevent sexual harassment. The curricula complies with the current California legislation mandating harassment training (AB 1825), as well as California's most recent regulatory pronouncement on that law. The EduNeering curricula meets or exceeds requirements issued by states including Connecticut, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Vermont.

On November 16, 2006 at 11:00 am EST (8:00 am PST), EduNeering will deliver a web-based seminar (webinar) on the new California regulations and best practices for sexual harassment training. This timely webinar will include details of the final California regulation, which will be published on November 15, 2006. For more information on thiw webinar, which is open to employers throughout the United States, send an e-mail to EduNeering Marketing at marketing@eduneering.com

In announcing the new curricula, Jason Meyer, EduNeering's Chief Legal Officer and its Ethics Practice Leader, said, "For employers to raise an effective defense or avoid punitive damages in sexual harassment lawsuits, they must demonstrate sexual harassment training for all employees. But more than that, sexual harassment training is a critical tool used by proactive employers who wish to promote a positive workplace. The EduNeering approach to sexual harassment training and to compliance in general, is to encourage organizations to ‘Do the Right Thing' - in other words, to establish a work environment in which positive ethical behavior is the norm."

Added Kim Moffa, EduNeering's Human Resources Practice Leader, "Our new courses, coupled with EduNeering's validated document distribution platform, provide our clients with tools to implement sexual harassment training. The new courses include Workplace Harassment Awareness for Managers in Major States, Workplace Harassment Awareness for Employees, and Harassment in the Workplace. EduNeering functionality gives companies a way to meet the additional requirements of the California regulation, including delivering and acknowledging reading of company's anti-harassment policy; delivering instructions on how to bring questions to company's in-house subject matter experts, and receiving questions from employees on-line, and route them to company's in-house subject matter experts."

According to the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), prevention is the best tool to eliminate sexual harassment in the workplace. Companies committed to best practices take steps necessary to prevent sexual harassment from occurring through sexual harassment training to their employees, an effective compliance or grievance process, and a prompt response to any complaints by employees, contractors or agents about possible harassment.

AB 1825 requires that all companies with 50 or more employees and at least one employee in California must provide sexual harassment training to the supervisor of those employees. Two hours of training are required every two years under the California regulation.

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EduNeering (www.eduneering.com), a Deloitte Technology Fast 500 Company, develops technology-enabled knowledge solutions for improving business performance and assuring regulatory compliance. For more than 25 years, the company has served corporate and government clients in the life sciences, healthcare, energy and industrial sectors using proprietary platforms that integrate business, learning and technology. Additionally, EduNeering maintains several unique partnerships with its clients, including a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement with FDA. Headquartered in Princeton, NJ, EduNeering Holdings, Inc. has offices in Houston, TX; Bloomsburg, PA; and the UK.