California Business and Professions Code

§ 7457

BPC § 7457 Effective Dec 16, 2020Div. 3 · Ch. 10.5 · Art. 5

Statute text

Sexual Harassment Prevention. (a) A network company shall develop a sexual harassment policy intended to protect app-based drivers and members of the public using rideshare services or delivery services. The policy shall be available on the network company’s internet website. The policy shall, at a minimum, do all of the following:

(1)Identify behaviors that may constitute sexual harassment, including the following: unwanted sexual advances; leering, gestures, or displaying sexually suggestive objects, pictures, cartoons, or posters; derogatory comments, epithets, slurs, or jokes; graphic comments, sexually degrading words, or suggestive or obscene messages or invitations; and physical touching or assault, as well as impeding or blocking movements.

(2)Indicate that the network company, and in many instances the law, prohibits app-based drivers and customers utilizing rideshare services or delivery services from committing prohibited harassment.

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Legislative history

Added November 3, 2020, by initiative Proposition 22, Sec. 1. Effective December 16, 2020.