Information and Insights surrounding the Law and the Rights of Accident Victims and their Families
Information and Insights surrounding the Law and the Rights of Accident Victims and their Families
The law prohibits employers from making decisions regarding employees based upon protected classes. But what is a protected class?
Protected classes are certain categories of specific, personal characteristics. For example, gender is a protected class. That means, an employer may not make decisions regarding employees based upon the employee’s gender. An employer cannot fire, demote, …
Harassment is unfair conduct targeting an employee or a group of employees based upon a protected class. Harassment can be verbal, physical, or visual (such as posters, cartoons, or drawings). See, Cal. Code Regs., tit. 2, §7287.6(b)(1).
For example, if employees frequently refer to a back co-worker as “boy” or use racial slurs, then …
Retaliation involves an employer taking adverse employment action against an employee because the employee opposed any workplace harassment or discrimination forbidden by law, or because the person filed a complaint, testified, or assisted in any proceeding
See, CACI 2505 and Government Code, § 12940(h).
When an employer or supervisor requires an employee to engage in sex to keep their job or receive some job benefit like a raise or promotion, that’s quid pro quo harassment. California’s FEHA law (Fair Employment and Housing Act) prohibits quid pro harassment and permits the employee to sue both the employer and the harasser.…