2025 Illinois and Chicago Legal Updates: Harassment Prevention training for staff and managers

Illinois employers are required to provide Sexual Harassment Training every year! More mandates in Chicago. Get in 2025 compliance now - we make it simple!

Wondering what changes the General Assembly has made for 2025? Here is a segment from our newly updated Harassment Prevention Training for Illinois Employers from i2i Workplace.

Contact i2i Workplace 866-640-1125, [email protected]
https://i2iworkplace.com/illinois-har...

Get in 2025 compliance now - we make it simple!
Easy compliance and tracking
Certificates of completion
Training covers legal requirements, behavioral standards, and everyday workplace situations
Exceeds requirements of Public Act 101-0221, Section 2-109(B)
Online training in English and Spanish for staff and managers
Less than $10/person - Why pay more?

Get your employees trained on harassment and Active Bystander Intervention training at a low per-employee cost.

Contact i2i Workplace 866-640-1125, [email protected]

Compliance with the Illinois Sexual Harassment Training requirements can be confusing and time-consuming. All Illinois employers are required by law to train their staff annually in sexual harassment prevention. Chicago has even higher standards.

We have you covered with a complete sexual harassment program: training, compliance reporting, and resources for upholding the law's requirements.

Public Act 101-0221 amended the Illinois Human Rights Act ("IHRA"), requiring Illinois employers to provide:
Annual sexual harassment prevention training
-Restaurants and bars to establish and disseminate a written policy on sexual harassment prevention training and provide "supplemental" sexual harassment prevention training

Our all-inclusive Illinois program provides Session A (for all staff) and Session B (for managers and supervisors) PLUS, if you have operations in other states or Spanish-speaking employees, we provide those sessions too, ensuring that everyone gets the same message.

i2iWORKPLACE offers:
Chicago Mandates Active Bystander Intervention Training
Chicago-based employers must provide Active Bystander Intervention training annually for all staff.

Contact i2i Workplace 866-640-1125, [email protected]

2025 UPDATE
New Developments in Harassment and Discrimination
ADA and PWFA
State Laws

Get your employees trained on harassment and Active Bystander Intervention training at a low per-employee cost.

Contact i2i Workplace 866-640-1125, [email protected]

2025
ILLINOIS STATE UPDATES
Expansion of the Illinois Whistleblower Act
HB 5561 expands on the definitions and protections afforded to employees under the Illinois Whistleblower Act. Specifically, the prior vague term “retaliate” has been replaced by “retaliatory action,” which includes not only taking “adverse employment action” against an employee that would dissuade the employee from disclosing information under the Act (including about immigration status), but also “threatening” to do so.

Artificial Intelligence in Employment Decisions
The General Assembly passed HB 3773 to prohibit discrimination in private sector use of artificial intelligence (AI) in making employment decisions. Under the new law, employers may not use AI that has the effect of subjecting employees to discrimination based on a protected class under the IHRA. Employers are also prohibited from using zip codes as a proxy for protected classes. The measure requires employers to notify employees of the use of AI to make or aid in making employment-related decisions.
Family Responsibility Protection Added to the Illinois Human Rights Act

The General Assembly added language protecting employees from adverse employment action based upon the employee’s “family responsibilities,” which is defined as “an employee’s actual or perceived provision of personal care to a family member.” The statute incorporates the Employee Sick Leave Act’s definition of “personal care” and “family member.”