Employment practices liability
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Employment Practices Readiness
No anti-harassment policy is recorded as existing in writing.
The EEOC's Promising Practices for Preventing Harassment page describes a harassment policy as including an easy to understand description of prohibited conduct with examples, a description of the complaint system with multiple, easily accessible reporting avenues, a statement that the employer will provide a prompt, impartial, and thorough investigation, and an assurance of immediate and proportionate corrective action, and describes effective written policies as written and communicated in a clear, easy to understand style and format. That page states that although these practices are not legal requirements under federal employment discrimination laws, they may enhance an employer's compliance efforts, so what the law itself requires of you in the states you recorded is a question for employment counsel.
No equal employment opportunity and nondiscrimination policy is recorded as existing in writing.
The EEOC states that an employer with 15 to 19 employees is covered by the laws prohibiting discrimination on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability and genetic information, and that at 20 or more employees age discrimination law is added. State and local employment discrimination laws may also apply.
No written assurance against retaliation is recorded.
The EEOC's Promising Practices for Preventing Harassment page describes a harassment policy as including an unequivocal statement that retaliation is prohibited, and that individuals who report harassing conduct, participate in investigations, or take any other actions protected under federal employment discrimination laws will not be subjected to retaliation. That page describes these as promising practices rather than legal requirements under federal employment discrimination laws.
There is no written complaint procedure telling an employee how to report a concern and what happens next.
The EEOC's Promising Practices for Preventing Harassment page describes a harassment policy as including a description of the complaint system with multiple, easily accessible reporting avenues, and a statement that the employer will provide a prompt, impartial, and thorough investigation. Where a complaint later becomes a charge, the employer must preserve all records relevant to the charge until final disposition, which is difficult without a defined intake route.
The direct supervisor is the only recorded reporting route, with no alternative recorded.
The EEOC's Promising Practices for Preventing Harassment page describes an effective complaint system as providing multiple avenues of complaint, if possible, including an avenue to report complaints regarding senior leaders. You recorded the direct supervisor as the only route, which leaves no recorded route for a complaint about that supervisor.
No route at all is recorded for an employee to raise a complaint.
The EEOC's Promising Practices for Preventing Harassment page describes an effective harassment complaint system as fully resourced, enabling the organization to respond promptly, thoroughly, and effectively to complaints, and as providing multiple, easily accessible reporting avenues, including an avenue to report complaints regarding senior leaders. You recorded no defined route at all.
No one is designated in advance to investigate a complaint.
The EEOC's Promising Practices for Preventing Harassment page describes an effective complaint system as providing prompt, thorough, and neutral investigations, and describes the personnel responsible for it as well-trained, objective, and neutral, with the authority, independence, and resources required to receive, investigate, and resolve complaints appropriately. Deciding who investigates before a complaint arrives is what makes those attributes checkable in advance.
No written log of complaints received and closed out is kept.
Under Title VII and the ADA an employer must keep all personnel or employment records for one year, and for one year from the date of an involuntary termination. Once a charge is filed, all records relevant to the charge must be preserved until final disposition of the charge or any lawsuit based on it.
A handbook exists but has not been given to every current employee.
The EEOC's Promising Practices for Preventing Harassment page describes effective written policies as provided to employees upon hire and during harassment trainings, and posted centrally, including in the company handbook, near employee time clocks, and in employee break rooms, and describes a harassment policy as regularly communicated to all employees. A policy carried only inside an undistributed handbook has not been communicated in that way.
A handbook exists but a signed acknowledgment is not held for every current employee.
The EEOC's Promising Practices for Preventing Harassment page describes effective written policies as provided to employees upon hire and during harassment trainings, and posted centrally. The acknowledgment is the record that the distribution actually happened, and it is commonly requested at submission.
Fifty or more employees are recorded within 75 miles of the largest worksite, and there is no handbook.
The FMLA applies to private sector employers who employ 50 or more employees for at least 20 workweeks in the current or preceding calendar year, and an employee is eligible only where there are 50 or more employees within 75 miles of the worksite. A covered employer must include the FMLA general notice in employee handbooks or other written guidance concerning benefits, or, if no such materials exist, must distribute a copy of the notice to each new employee upon hiring.
Fifty or more employees are recorded within 75 miles of the largest worksite, a handbook exists, and no family and medical leave policy or notice is recorded in the written set.
A covered employer must include the FMLA general notice in employee handbooks or other written guidance to employees concerning benefits, and must post and keep posted a notice explaining the FMLA's provisions in conspicuous places where employees are employed.
No harassment and discrimination prevention training has been delivered to anyone.
The EEOC's Promising Practices for Preventing Harassment page describes training that is repeated and reinforced regularly and provided to employees at every level and location of the organization, and states that these practices are not legal requirements under federal employment discrimination laws. Some states set training as a requirement rather than a practice: section 12950.1 provides that an employer having five or more employees shall provide at least one hour of training to nonsupervisory and two hours to supervisory employees, and New York requires every employer to provide training to each employee on an annual basis.
California is recorded as a state of operation, five or more employees are recorded, and the most recent training date is more than two years before today.
California Government Code section 12950.1 provides that an employer having five or more employees shall provide sexual harassment prevention training, and that each employer covered by the section shall provide the training to each employee in California once every two years. You recorded a headcount of five or more, and the training date you recorded is more than two years old.
New York is recorded as a state of operation and the most recent training date is more than one year before today.
New York State requires every employer to provide sexual harassment prevention training and states that each employee must receive training on an annual basis. The date you recorded is more than one year old.
People supervise other workers, but the recorded training reached non-supervisory employees only.
The EEOC's Promising Practices for Preventing Harassment page states that because supervisors and managers have additional responsibilities, they may benefit from additional training, and describes supervisor training as covering how to prevent, identify, stop, report, and correct harassment, clear instructions about how to report harassment up the chain of command, and an unequivocal statement that retaliation is prohibited. That page states these are not legal requirements under federal employment discrimination laws. Section 12950.1, which applies to an employer having five or more employees, sets a longer session for supervisory employees than for everyone else.
California is recorded as a state of operation, five or more employees are recorded, and the new hire training window you recorded is longer than six months.
California Government Code section 12950.1 provides that an employer having five or more employees shall provide the training, that new nonsupervisory employees shall be provided training within six months of hire, and that new supervisory employees shall be provided training within six months of assuming a supervisory position. You recorded a headcount of five or more and an interval longer than 180 days, so a California hire trained at the end of your own window would fall outside the interval the statute names.
Training has been delivered but no dated attendance or completion record is held for each person trained.
An employer must retain employment records such as applications, personnel, payroll and benefits records as required by law. Under Title VII and the ADA personnel or employment records must be kept for one year, and once a charge is filed all relevant records must be preserved until final disposition.
The most recent training date is more than two years old, and the required interval differs by state.
The EEOC's promising practices page describes training that should be repeated and reinforced regularly without naming an interval, and states that these practices are not legal requirements under federal employment discrimination laws, while state law does name intervals: once every two years in California for an employer having five or more employees, and annually in New York. Which interval binds you depends on your headcount and on where your people work, which this module cannot decide.
The most recent internal complaint date falls inside the outer EEOC charge filing window measured from today.
A charge must generally be filed within 180 calendar days from the day the discrimination took place, extended to 300 calendar days where a state or local agency enforces a law prohibiting employment discrimination on the same basis. The date you recorded is within the last 300 days, so the outer window has not closed. Once a charge is filed, all records relevant to it must be preserved until final disposition of the charge or any lawsuit based on it.
Prior charge or demand history is recorded as yes, and the underlying paperwork is not on hand.
Once a charge has been filed an employer must preserve all records relevant to the charge until final disposition of the charge or any lawsuit based on the charge. A submission cannot be completed accurately from memory, and an inaccurate prior-acts answer is a problem you do not want to create.
Prior charge or demand history is recorded as unsure.
A charge may be filed up to 180 calendar days after the conduct, extended to 300 calendar days where a state or local agency enforces a parallel law, so a matter can be live without the business having heard about it recently. Records relevant to a filed charge must be preserved until final disposition.
People are recorded on payroll but no employment practices liability coverage is recorded.
Federal discrimination law reaches an employer at 15 to 19 employees for most protected bases and at 20 or more for age, and state and local laws may reach further. Employment claims are a different subject matter from bodily injury and property damage liability and from workers compensation, so a limit recorded on those lines is not a limit recorded against this exposure.
The recorded retroactive date is later than the date the business first had anyone on payroll.
You recorded a claims-made retroactive date that falls after the start of employment operations, which leaves the period between those two dates on the wrong side of the retroactive date. Federal recordkeeping rules assume conduct and records reaching back years, with payroll records kept three years under the ADEA and records preserved through final disposition once a charge is filed, and a charge may reach conduct up to 300 days before filing.
The employees recorded within 75 miles of the largest worksite exceed the total recorded headcount.
The radius figure is a subset of total payroll headcount, so it cannot be the larger of the two. Both figures feed the 50 employee and 75 mile test used for federal leave law coverage, and an insurer will read the two numbers against each other.
Whether a third-party coverage part is recorded is marked unsure.
Claims brought by customers, clients, or vendors are a different category of claimant from claims brought by employees, and the module cannot tell from your entries which categories the recorded coverage addresses. Federal discrimination law is framed around the employment relationship, so a third-party claimant raises a separate question about what is recorded.
No timekeeping and overtime policy is recorded in writing and no wage and hour defense cost coverage part is recorded.
The FLSA requires records for each nonexempt worker including hours worked each day and total hours worked each workweek, the regular hourly pay rate, and total wages paid each pay period. Payroll records must be preserved at least three years and the records on which wage computations are based at least two.
The required workplace posters are not recorded as all displayed and current.
An employer must display a poster at the business that describes the federal employment discrimination laws. Department of Labor posters must be posted prominently where they can be readily seen by employees, and separate posters are identified for the FLSA, OSHA, the FMLA, the Employee Polygraph Protection Act, and USERRA, among others.
Independent contractors or unpaid interns are recorded alongside payroll employees, and who counts as an employee is unresolved.
Federal discrimination law coverage turns on employee counts, at 15 to 19 employees for most protected bases and 20 or more for age, and FLSA recordkeeping duties attach to each nonexempt worker. This module does not classify workers; it records that the question is open and that both your legal duties and your recorded headcount move with the answer.
Employees work from states where the business has no physical location.
The EEOC states plainly that state and local employment discrimination laws may also apply to a business in addition to the federal laws it enforces. Two of the states in this module illustrate how far that goes: California sets training hours and a two year interval at five or more employees, and New York requires a policy and annual training of every employer.
The written policies have not been reviewed or updated in more than two years.
The EEOC's promising practices page describes a harassment policy as regularly communicated to all employees, and as provided to employees upon hire and during harassment trainings, and state requirements move: New York directs an employer that does not adopt the state model policy to adopt one that meets or exceeds the published minimum standards. The review date you recorded is more than two years old.
The submission or renewal date is within sixty days of today, and the documentation items above take longer than that to close.
Drafting and adopting policies, redistributing a handbook and collecting acknowledgments, and scheduling training against a state interval are sequential tasks: California, for an employer having five or more employees, measures training once every two years and gives six months for a new hire, and New York measures it annually. What can honestly be finished before your date, and what has to be described as in progress, is a question to settle now rather than in the final week.
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- [1]Promising Practices for Preventing Harassment(opens the original record on U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission)U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity CommissionRegulatorSecondaryJurisdiction USLast checked August 31, 2026Updates: Reviewed at least every 180 days.ID
eeoc-promising-practices-preventing-harassmentWhat this source supports (25)
- A harassment policy should be comprehensive, easy to understand, and regularly communicated to all employees.
- The policy should be written and communicated in a clear, easy to understand style and format.
- The policy should be provided to employees upon hire and during harassment trainings, and posted centrally.
- A harassment complaint system should provide multiple avenues of complaint, if possible, including an avenue to report complaints regarding senior leaders.
- The complaint system should be fully resourced and accessible to all employees.
- Training should be repeated and reinforced regularly and delivered to employees at every level and location of the organization.
- Supervisors and managers warrant additional training beyond the training given to other employees.
- These are described as promising practices rather than strict legal requirements under federal law.
- The policy should include an easy to understand description of prohibited conduct, including examples.
- The policy should include an unequivocal statement that retaliation is prohibited, and that individuals who report harassing conduct, participate in investigations, or take any other actions protected under federal employment discrimination laws will not be subjected to retaliation.
- The policy should include a description of the organization's harassment complaint system, including multiple (if possible), easily accessible reporting avenues.
- The policy should include a statement that the employer will provide a prompt, impartial, and thorough investigation.
- The policy should include a statement that the identity of individuals who report harassment, alleged victims, witnesses, and alleged harassers will be kept confidential to the extent possible and permitted by law, consistent with a thorough and impartial investigation.
- The policy should include an assurance that the organization will take immediate and proportionate corrective action if it determines that harassment has occurred.
- Effective written policies are written and communicated in a clear, easy to understand style and format.
- Effective written policies are provided to employees upon hire and during harassment trainings, and posted centrally, such as on the company's internal website, in the company handbook, near employee time clocks, in employee break rooms, and in other commonly used areas or locations.
- An effective harassment complaint system is fully resourced, enabling the organization to respond promptly, thoroughly, and effectively to complaints.
- An effective harassment complaint system provides multiple avenues of complaint, if possible, including an avenue to report complaints regarding senior leaders.
- An effective harassment complaint system provides prompt, thorough, and neutral investigations.
- The personnel responsible for the complaint system are well-trained, objective, and neutral, and have the authority, independence, and resources required to receive, investigate, and resolve complaints appropriately.
- Responsible personnel should appropriately document every complaint, from initial intake to investigation to resolution, and prepare a written report documenting the investigation, findings, recommendations, and disciplinary action imposed (if any), and corrective and preventative action taken (if any).
- Training should be repeated and reinforced regularly, and provided to employees at every level and location of the organization.
- Because supervisors and managers have additional responsibilities, they may benefit from additional training.
- Effective training for supervisors and managers includes information about how to prevent, identify, stop, report, and correct harassment, clear instructions about how to report harassment up the chain of command, an unequivocal statement that retaliation is prohibited, and explanations of the consequences of failing to fulfill their responsibilities related to harassment and retaliation.
- Although these practices are not legal requirements under federal employment discrimination laws, they may enhance employers' compliance efforts.
Active - [2]Small Business Requirements(opens the original record on U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission)U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity CommissionRegulatorPrimaryJurisdiction USLast checked August 31, 2026Updates: Reviewed at least every 180 days.ID
eeoc-small-business-requirementsWhat this source supports (5)
- An employer with 15 to 19 employees is covered by the laws that prohibit discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or transgender status), national origin, disability and genetic information.
- An employer with 20 or more employees is additionally covered by the law that prohibits discrimination based on age (40 or older).
- An employer must display a poster at the business that describes the federal employment discrimination laws.
- An employer must retain employment records, such as applications, personnel, payroll and benefits records, as required by law.
- State and/or local employment discrimination laws may also apply to a business.
Active - [3]Recordkeeping Requirements(opens the original record on U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission)U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity CommissionRegulatorPrimaryJurisdiction USLast checked August 31, 2026Updates: Reviewed at least every 180 days.ID
eeoc-recordkeeping-requirementsWhat this source supports (5)
- Under Title VII and the ADA employers must keep all personnel or employment records for one year.
- Where an employee is involuntarily terminated, the personnel records must be retained for one year from the date of termination.
- Under the ADEA employers must keep all payroll records for three years.
- Employee benefit plans and written seniority or merit systems must be kept for the full period the plan or system is in effect and for at least one year after termination.
- Once a charge has been filed, the employer must preserve all records relevant to the charge until final disposition of the charge or any lawsuit based on the charge.
Active - [4]Family and Medical Leave Act - Frequently Asked Questions(opens the original record on U.S. Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division)U.S. Department of Labor, Wage and Hour DivisionRegulatorPrimaryJurisdiction USLast checked August 31, 2026Updates: Reviewed at least every 180 days.ID
dol-whd-fmla-faqWhat this source supports (4)
- The FMLA applies to private sector employers who employ 50 or more employees for at least 20 workweeks in the current or preceding calendar year.
- An employee is eligible only if the employer has 50 or more employees within 75 miles of the worksite where the employee is located.
- Every employer covered by the FMLA is required to post and keep posted on its premises, in conspicuous places where employees are employed, a notice explaining the FMLA's provisions.
- Covered employers must include the FMLA general notice in employee handbooks or other written guidance to employees concerning benefits, or, if no such materials exist, must distribute a copy of the notice to each new employee upon hiring.
Active - [5]California Government Code section 12950.1 - sexual harassment prevention training(opens the original record on California Legislative Information (California Legislative Counsel))California Legislative Information (California Legislative Counsel)Primary lawPrimaryJurisdiction CALast checked August 31, 2026Updates: Reviewed at least every 180 days.ID
ca-gov-12950-1What this source supports (6)
- An employer having five or more employees shall provide sexual harassment prevention training.
- Supervisory employees must receive at least two hours of classroom or other effective interactive training.
- Nonsupervisory employees must receive at least one hour of classroom or other effective interactive training.
- Each employer covered by the section shall provide the training to each employee in California once every two years.
- New nonsupervisory employees shall be provided training within six months of hire.
- New supervisory employees shall be provided training within six months of the assumption of a supervisory position.
Active - [6]Sexual Harassment Prevention Model Policy and Training(opens the original record on State of New York (ny.gov))State of New York (ny.gov)RegulatorPrimaryJurisdiction NYEffective October 9, 2018Last checked August 31, 2026Updates: Reviewed at least every 180 days.ID
nys-sexual-harassment-prevention-policy-and-trainingWhat this source supports (4)
- Every employer in New York State is required to adopt a sexual harassment prevention policy.
- Every employer in New York State is required to provide employees with sexual harassment prevention training.
- Each employee must receive training on an annual basis, starting October 9, 2018.
- An employer that does not adopt the state model policy must adopt a policy that meets or exceeds the published minimum standards, including a procedure for the timely and confidential investigation of complaints.
Active - [7]Time Limits For Filing A Charge(opens the original record on U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission)U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity CommissionRegulatorPrimaryJurisdiction USLast checked August 31, 2026Updates: Reviewed at least every 180 days.ID
eeoc-time-limits-filing-chargeWhat this source supports (4)
- In general a charge must be filed within 180 calendar days from the day the discrimination took place.
- The 180 calendar day filing deadline is extended to 300 calendar days if a state or local agency enforces a law that prohibits employment discrimination on the same basis.
- For age discrimination the extension to 300 days applies only where a state law prohibits age discrimination in employment and a state agency enforces it.
- Holidays and weekends are included in the calculation, and a deadline falling on a weekend or holiday moves to the next business day.
Active - [8]Fact Sheet #21: Recordkeeping Requirements under the Fair Labor Standards Act(opens the original record on U.S. Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division)U.S. Department of Labor, Wage and Hour DivisionRegulatorPrimaryJurisdiction USLast checked August 31, 2026Updates: Reviewed at least every 180 days.ID
dol-whd-fs21-flsa-recordkeepingWhat this source supports (4)
- An employer must keep specified records for each nonexempt worker, including hours worked each day and total hours worked each workweek.
- Required records include the regular hourly pay rate, the basis on which wages are paid, and total wages paid each pay period.
- Each employer shall preserve for at least three years payroll records, collective bargaining agreements, and sales and purchase records.
- Records on which wage computations are based, such as time cards, piece work tickets, and wage rate tables, should be retained for two years.
Active - [9]Workplace Posters(opens the original record on U.S. Department of Labor)U.S. Department of LaborRegulatorPrimaryJurisdiction USLast checked August 31, 2026Updates: Reviewed at least every 180 days.ID
dol-workplace-postersWhat this source supports (4)
- Employers are required to display certain posters in the workplace where employees can readily observe them.
- A required poster must be posted prominently where it can be readily seen by employees.
- Posters are identified for the Fair Labor Standards Act, the Occupational Safety and Health Act, the Family and Medical Leave Act, the Employee Polygraph Protection Act, and USERRA, among other laws.
- The elaws Poster Advisor helps an employer determine which posters apply to its business.
Active - [10]EEOC Commission Votes to Rescind 2024 Harassment Guidance(opens the original record on U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission)U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity CommissionRegulatorPrimaryJurisdiction USPublished January 23, 2026Effective January 22, 2026Last checked September 1, 2026Updates: as-neededID
eeoc-newsroom-rescind-2024-harassment-guidanceWhat this source supports (5)
- The Commission voted 2-1 to rescind its Enforcement Guidance on Harassment in the Workplace, which was originally approved in 2024.
- The vote took place on January 22, 2026 and was announced by the agency on January 23, 2026.
- The announcement does not name any guidance document issued in place of the rescinded guidance.
- Chair Andrea Lucas stated that federal employment laws against discrimination, harassment, and retaliation, and Supreme Court precedent interpreting those laws, remain firmly in place.
- The announcement makes no mention of Texas, et al. v. EEOC or of the scope of any court ruling.
Active - [11]Enforcement Guidance on Harassment in the Workplace(opens the original record on U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission)U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity CommissionRegulatorPrimaryJurisdiction USPublished April 29, 2024Effective April 29, 2024Last checked September 1, 2026Updates: quarterlyID
eeoc-enforcement-guidance-harassment-workplace-2024What this source supports (3)
- This document was approved by the Commission on April 29, 2024 by a 3-2 vote.
- This document replaced the Enforcement Guidance on Vicarious Employer Liability for Unlawful Harassment by Supervisors, issued in 1999, along with several other earlier EEOC guidance documents.
- On May 15, 2025 a federal court in Texas, et al. v. EEOC declared unlawful and vacated portions of this document as contrary to law, and the court stated that its vacatur of the unlawful portions applies nationwide.
- [12]Enforcement Guidance: Vicarious Liability for Unlawful Harassment by Supervisors(opens the original record on U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission)U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity CommissionRegulatorPrimaryJurisdiction USPublished June 18, 1999Effective June 18, 1999Last checked September 1, 2026Updates: Reviewed at least every 180 days.ID
eeoc-guidance-vicarious-liability-supervisor-harassmentWhat this source supports (10)
- An anti-harassment policy and complaint procedure should contain, at a minimum, a clear explanation of prohibited conduct.
- The policy should contain assurance that employees who make complaints of harassment or provide information related to such complaints will be protected against retaliation.
- The policy should contain a clearly described complaint process that provides accessible avenues of complaint.
- The policy should contain assurance that the employer will protect the confidentiality of harassment complaints to the extent possible.
- The policy should provide a complaint process that provides a prompt, thorough, and impartial investigation.
- The policy should contain assurance that the employer will take immediate and appropriate corrective action when it determines that harassment has occurred.
- An employer should provide every employee with a copy of the policy and complaint procedure, and redistribute it periodically.
- Other means of dissemination include posting the policy in central locations and incorporating it into employee handbooks.
- If feasible, the employer should provide training to all employees to ensure they understand their rights and responsibilities.
- Supervisors should receive periodic training covering prohibited conduct, the seriousness of the policy, supervisor responsibilities on learning of harassment, and the prohibition on retaliation.
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