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You are Muslim, and you wear a hijab at work. One day, your manager tells you to take off your hijab because your expression of faith is allegedly making other employees and customers “uncomfortable.” Is this legal? Probably not. Under both federal law and California...
Sexual orientation discrimination can come in many forms: the discriminatory animus may be directed at gay employees in general, or as the California Court of Appeal case Husman v. Toyota Motor Credit Corporation, 12 Cal.App.5th 1168 (2017) demonstrates, the...
Originally Published on October 25, 2020; Revised in April 2021 In Budwig v. Allegiant Air, LLC, 2020 WL 5235671 (E.D. Cal. September 2, 2020), Plaintiff Michelle Budwig (“Plaintiff”) sued Allegiant Air, LLC (“Allegiant Air”) for failure to engage in the interactive...
In Martinez v. Costco Wholesale Corp., 2020 WL 4922318 (S.D. Cal. August 21, 2020), Plaintiff Marisa Martinez (“Plaintiff”) sued Costco WholeSale Corporation (“Costco”) for disability discrimination, among other things. The salient facts of Martinez are set forth...
Under California law, it is unlawful for employers to discriminate against you based on your gender. Below is a non-exhaustive list of what courts have found as potential evidence of gender discrimination in the workplace. One factor alone is not necessarily...
If you believe that your current or former employer may have engaged in disability discrimination against you, below are seven things you should know about disability discrimination under California law: No. 1: To prevail on a disability discrimination claim, an...
If you believe that your current or former employer may have engaged in disability discrimination against you, below are seven things you should know about disability discrimination under California law: No. 1: Under California law, a “physical disability”...
Originally Published on August 20, 2020; Revised on August 7, 2021 In Swanson v. Morongo Unified School District, 232 Cal.App.4th 954 (2014), Lauralyn Swanson (“Swanson”), a teacher, sued the Morongo Unified School District (the “District”) alleging that the District:...
Fidelity Home Energy, Inc. -- which is a San Leandro-based solar and home energy company -- and its successor NorCal Home Systems, Inc. will pay $350,000 to a former employee to settle a national origin discrimination lawsuit filed by the the U.S. Equal Employment...
Plaintiff Lester Young ("Young") filed a religious discrimination complaint with the Department of Fair Employment and Housing (the "Department") against his former employer Gemini Aluminum Corporation ("Gemini"). Among other things, the Fair Employment and Housing...