Labor and Public Employees Committee
Government Administration and Elections Committee
AN ACT CONCERNING STATE EMPLOYEES AND TRAINING TO DEAL WITH WORKPLACE VIOLENCE
SUMMARY: By January 1, 2012, this act requires the Department of Administrative Services (DAS) commissioner to develop an employee training program on workplace violence awareness, prevention, and preparedness. It requires full-time state employees hired after January 1, 2012, as a condition of employment, to attend the training within six months of being hired. Full-time employees hired before January 1, 2012 must attend the training, but the act creates no deadline for them to do so.
The act eliminates the requirement that the DAS commissioner, in consultation with the mental health and addiction services and public safety commissioners, include workplace violence awareness and preparedness in an annual training program for state employees, thus limiting the subjects covered in this program to workplace stress awareness and prevention.
EFFECTIVE DATE: October 1, 2011
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