Sexual Harassment Training Now Required for 20% of U.S. Workers

  • Post #MeToo, six states have passed or revamped training laws
  • A third of Americans say workplaces still foster bad behavior

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Two years into the #MeToo movement, an unprecedented number of American workers are required to receive mandatory sexual harassment training, the result of a handful of new state regulations aimed at creating safer workplaces.

Now one in five workers in the U.S. lives in a state that requires employers to offer sexual harassment training, up from one in 100 two years ago.