• All New York City employers with 15 or more employees at any point in the previous calendar year must conduct annual training for all employees within 90 days of the employee's date of hire as of April 1, 2019.
  • Independent contractors are considered employees when calculating the number of employees threshold.
  • Employees that work a portion of their time in New York City or interact with employees that work in New Your City must be trained.
  • Employers are required to provide Anti-Sexual Harassment Training to contractors, part-time, seasonal, or short-term employees who work more than 80 hours in a calendar year and work for at least 90 days. Employers are not required to re-train independent contractors that have completed the required annual training elsewhere.
  • Training must be completed by all exempt or non-exempt employees, part-time workers, seasonal workers, and temporary workers, and any individual that works a portion of his or her time in New York, even if based in another state. 
  • The anti-sexual harassment training should be interactive.
  • Training must also be completed on an annual basis. 
  • Employers must document the employee’s training.
  • Employers must keep employee’s training document for 3 years.