Help Chicago employees meet the city's yearly harassment training rule while learning their rights, how to report, and why retaliation is illegal.
Employers with workers in Chicago must provide sexual harassment prevention training every year under the city's Human Rights Ordinance. Each employee needs at least one hour annually, and Illinois has its own yearly training law. This course gives employees one focused, hour-long session built around those rules. The material is organized into seven sections. Employees review how federal and Illinois laws define and prohibit sexual harassment, and what rights and duties apply to workers and employers. Later sections explain why punishing someone for reporting is unlawful and how protections extend to gender identity and pregnancy. The course also looks at harassment carried out through email, texts and other technology. It closes with the steps for filing a complaint and the remedies available. The video runs 60 minutes and is available in English. Supervisors face a longer requirement under the ordinance, and bystander training is a separate annual hour, so plan those sessions too.
Every employee of an employer covered by the Chicago Human Rights Ordinance needs sexual harassment prevention training each year. Supervisors and managers must complete a longer session, and all employees also need separate bystander intervention training. A one-hour course therefore covers only the basic employee portion of Chicago's annual requirement.
The Chicago Human Rights Ordinance, as amended in 2022, requires employers to provide annual sexual harassment prevention training. Illinois employers also have a separate yearly obligation under the Illinois Workplace Transparency Act. Chicago sets a minimum of one hour per year for employees and two hours for supervisors, plus one hour of bystander training.
Chicago sexual harassment prevention training must last at least one hour per year for non-supervisory employees and two hours for supervisors and managers. Bystander training is an additional hour each year for everyone. This 60-minute English course is designed to fill the one-hour employee portion of the city requirement.
Retaliation is any adverse action taken against someone because they reported harassment, filed a complaint, or took part in an investigation. Examples include firing, demotion, cutting hours or hostile treatment after a report. Retaliation is illegal under federal, Illinois and Chicago law, even when the original complaint is not proven.
A Chicago employee who is sexually harassed can report it internally under the employer's policy and also file a complaint with an outside agency. Options include the Chicago Commission on Human Relations, the Illinois Department of Human Rights and the federal EEOC. Each agency sets its own filing deadline, so acting promptly protects available remedies.
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