Section 301 - Abusive conduct training. - US Lawyer Database

Effective 7/1/2021
67-26-301. Abusive conduct training.

(1)
- (a) The division shall provide biennial training to educate all state executive branch agency employees and supervisors about how to prevent abusive workplace conduct.
- (b) The training described in Subsection (1)(a) shall include information on:
  - (i) what constitutes abusive conduct and the ramifications of abusive conduct;
  - (ii) resources available to employees who are subject to abusive conduct; and
  - (iii) the abusive conduct complaint process described in Section 67-26-202.

(2)
- (a) The division shall create a baseline training module for employers that are not state executive branch agencies to educate the employers’ respective employees and supervisors about how to prevent abusive workplace conduct.
- (b) The baseline training module described in Subsection (2)(a) shall include information on what constitutes abusive conduct and the ramifications of abusive conduct.
- (c) Each employer that is not a state executive branch agency shall create and provide supplemental training to educate the employer’s employees and supervisors that supplements the division’s baseline training module with information regarding:
  - (i) resources available to employees who are subject to abusive conduct; and
  - (ii) the employer’s abusive conduct complaint process described in Section 67-26-202.
- (d) An employer may request assistance from the division, at the division’s current consultant rate, in developing the training described in Subsection (2)(c).

(3)
- (a) Each employer shall provide professional development training to promote:
  - (i) ethical conduct;
  - (ii) organizational leadership practices based in principles of integrity; and
  - (iii) the state policy described in Section 67-26-201.
- (b) An employer may request assistance from the division, at the division’s current consultation rate, in developing training described in this Subsection (3).

(4)
- (a) Employers shall provide and employees shall participate in the training described in this section:
  - (i) at the time the employee is hired or within a reasonable time after the employee begins employment; and
  - (ii) at least every other year after the employee begins employment.
- (b) An employer shall, at the times described in Subsection (4)(a), provide notification to the employee of the abusive conduct complaint process.

(5) The division may use money appropriated to the division or access support from outside resources to:
- (a) develop policies against workplace abusive conduct; and
- (b) enhance professional development training on topics such as:
  - (i) building trust;
  - (ii) effective motivation;
  - (iii) communication;
  - (iv) conflict resolution;
  - (v) accountability;
  - (vi) coaching;
  - (vii) leadership; or
  - (viii) ethics.

(6)
- (a) Beginning in 2021, and each year after 2021, an employer that is not a state executive branch agency shall, on or before July 31, report to the division regarding:
  - (i) the employer’s implementation of this chapter, including the requirement to provide a process under Section 67-26-202; and
  - (ii) the total number and outcomes of abusive conduct complaints that the employer’s employees filed and that the employer investigated or reviewed.
- (b) The division shall annually report to the Economic Development and Workforce Services Interim Committee, no later than the November interim meeting, the following:
  - (i) a description the division’s implementation of this chapter;
  - (ii) the division’s recommendations, if any, to:
    - (A) appropriately address and reduce workplace abusive conduct; or
    - (B) change definitions or training required by this section;
  - (iii) an annual report of the total number and outcomes of abusive conduct complaints that employees filed and the department investigated; and
  - (iv) a summary of the reports the department receives under Subsection (6)(a).

Amended by Chapter 344, 2021 General Session