EEOC offers employers a Hobson’s choice on employee training

Training.

Training, training, training.

We all appreciate the practical importance of training. It can certainly help eliminate pesky and undesirable workplace issues. Heck, it can even help create a desirable workplace for employees.

Set aside the practical benefits of training—e.g., relaying fairly obvious no-nos to a room typically containing persons inexplicably unaware of obvious no-nos—and let’s talk about training from a legal perspective.

Background

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 doesn’t require employee or managerial training on discrimination, harassment, or retaliation. You can read the entire statute—you won’t find it. You can read the regulations, too. It’s not there, either.