Category Archives: Discrimination
The Sex Discrimination Case That Rocked Silicon Valley Proceeds to Trial
The high-profile sexual discrimination lawsuit by Ellen Pao against the Silicon Valley giant venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers has moved closer to trial. In September 2013, the...
How Far Does California’s Definition of Religious Discrimination Go?
This past summer, California judge John Meyer concluded that yoga, as being taught by a public school, was not advancing or promoting religion. In 2011, Encinitas Union School District in...
Protecting California’s Employees With Disabilities From Discrimination
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is responsible for enforcing the federal laws prohibiting discrimination against disabled persons in the workplace. Recently, the EEOC filed a lawsuit against the...
Filing an Employment Discrimination Suit? Be Prepared!
California’s Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) prohibits harassment and discrimination in employment based on a number of protected classes including race, religion, gender, age and disability. A victim of...
Age Discrimination Lawsuits Hold Employers Accountable
In April 2013, California Superior Court awarded two plaintiffs $2.6 million in damages in an age discrimination case. The plaintiffs, Nimet Behar, aged 49, and Clorinda Greek, aged 63, were...
California’s Legal Protections Against Workplace Discrimination
California’s Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) prohibits discrimination in employment based on religion just as Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 bans such discrimination at the...
Disability Discrimination and the Death of a Newborn
Reyna Garcia worked at Albertson’s in Atascadero as general merchandise manager, which involved loading and unloading significant quantities of merchandise. When she became pregnant in 2012 and suffered pelvic pain,...
