EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION

California’s Fair Employment and Housing Act prohibits employers from refusing to hire, train, employ, or provide equal wages, working conditions, or promotional opportunities, because of a person’s race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender (including identity/expression), sexual orientation, age over 40, or military/veteran status.

Potential remedies for proven employment discrimination may include award of lost wages, emotional distress damages, attorney’s fees, and punitive damages.

More information about workplace civil rights is available from the California State Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH).  And although an administrative complaint may be filed directly with DFEH, the potential filer may benefit from first retaining private legal representation, such as through California Employment Justice Center, to provide strategic legal counsel from the very beginning of the case. Either way, a potential victim should waste no time in securing legal assistance, because access to justice could be lost if any applicable case filing deadlines were missed.