Virginia's numbered Code sections we could verify (§ 30-129.4, § 30-129.5) cover the legislative branch and General Assembly members, a different population from state contractors. For the contractor requirement we cite the administering agency and its stated terms rather than a section number we could not confirm applies to contractors specifically.
What Virginia employers should know
Virginia's requirement is narrower than most states on this page: it applies to contractors on state contracts exceeding $10,000 who employ five or more people, not to Virginia employers generally.
The rule requires training that covers the contractor's own sexual harassment policy. A general course is a real foundation, but it does not substitute for training on your specific policy, and our material says so rather than implying otherwise.
If your business is not a Virginia state contractor at that threshold, Virginia does not currently impose a state-wide private-employer training mandate the way New York, California or Illinois do.
What this page does not tell you
This is not legal advice, and it is not a complete statement of Virginia law. We publish the statutory reference our own course material cites and the practical points that material covers. We do not publish hour counts, deadlines or coverage thresholds that we cannot trace to a source, because a training vendor restating a requirement it has not verified is how an employer ends up under-trained while believing they are covered. For the current rule, go to the Virginia Department of Human Resource Management (DHRM).
Our Virginia course
Common questions
Who has to take harassment prevention training in Virginia?
The obligation generally follows where your employees work rather than where your company is registered, so an employer with staff in Virginia is usually covered even if headquartered elsewhere. Several states also treat supervisors differently from other employees. Confirm the current scope with the Virginia Department of Human Resource Management (DHRM), which is the authority on who is covered.
Does online training meet the Virginia requirement?
Virginia expects interactive training, and our course is built to be interactive rather than a video you watch passively. It issues a dated certificate with a unique ID that anyone can verify. What a course cannot supply is your own policy, your named reporting contacts and your complaint route, and our material tells learners to find those from their employer rather than inventing them.
How do I prove we trained our staff?
Every trainee gets a certificate carrying their own name, the date, and a unique ID that an investigator or auditor can confirm on our verification page without an account. The name is the one the trainee confirms themselves at the end of the course, not the name on the card that paid for it.
Where can I read the actual Virginia rule?
Go to the Virginia Department of Human Resource Management (DHRM). We link to it on this page. We publish the statutory reference our own course material cites and nothing beyond it, because a training vendor restating a requirement it has not verified is how employers end up under-trained while believing they are covered.