Sec. 21.010. EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION TRAINING FOR STATE EMPLOYEES. (a) Each state agency shall provide to employees of the agency an employment discrimination training program that complies with this section.
(b) The training program must provide the employee with information regarding the agency's policies and procedures relating to employment discrimination, including employment discrimination involving sexual harassment.
(c) Each employee of a state agency shall attend the training program required by this section not later than the 30th day after the date the employee is hired by the agency and shall attend supplemental training every two years.
(d) The commission shall develop materials for use by state agencies in providing employment discrimination training as required by this section.
(e) Each state agency shall require an employee of the agency who attends a training program required by this section to sign a statement verifying the employee's attendance at the training program. The agency shall file the statement in the employee's personnel file.
Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 872, Sec. 14, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.
Last modified: September 28, 2016