Yes, sexual jokes at work can be sexual harassment. Sexual joking is harassment when it was unwelcome to you and graphic or frequent enough to make your workplace hostile, meaning it became intimidating, humiliating, or unsafe to be there. In California, repetition of a joke is not required. One graphic joke can be sexual harassment. […]
An employee who experiences age discrimination in the workplace can hold their employer liable under the federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act, which protects workers 40 and older from certain adverse employment decisions based on age. California employees have additional protections under state law that expand on what the ADEA provides. Age Discrimination in Employment […]
The Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA), at Government Code section 12940, is California's main law protecting workers from sexual harassment. FEHA covers most California workers and applies whether the harassment comes from your boss or a coworker. Federal law and several other California statutes add to that protection. Together, the state and federal laws […]
Getting passed over for a promotion you were clearly qualified for, being terminated shortly after disclosing a pregnancy, or watching a younger colleague get assigned the opportunities you'd been asking for can all feel like discrimination. In California, any one of those situations could cross the line into unlawful treatment, but what creates a viable […]