Discrimination & Harassment

Discrimination & Harassment

California laws that protects everyone from illegal discrimination and harassment in employment based on your actual or perceived: ancestry; age (40 and above); color; disability (physical and mental); genetic information; gender, gender identity, and gender expression; marital status; medical condition; national origin; race; religion; sex; or sexual orientation. The laws apply to all types of work situations, including hiring, firing, promotions, harassment, training, wages, and benefits.

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California law protects everyone from illegal discrimination and harassment in employment based on your actual or perceived: ancestry; age (40 and above); color; disability (physical and mental); genetic information; gender, gender identity, and gender expression; marital status; medical condition; national origin; race; religion; sex; or sexual orientation. The law apply to all types of work situations, including hiring, firing, promotions, harassment, training, wages, and benefits.

Working For Dignity Survey Findings

Discrimination stats

Resources

Tipped Over the Edge: Gender Inequality in Restaurant Work

"The restaurant industry employs over 10 million workers1 in one of the largest and fastest-growing sectors of the United States economy.2 The majority of workers in this huge and growing sector are women.3 Despite the sector’s growth and potential to offer opportunities to advance women’s economic security, restaurant workers’ wages have not kept pace with the industry’s economic growth." Read the Report from Restaurant Opportunity Centers United

California Rural Legal Assistance

The CRLA aims "To fight for justice and individual rights alongside the most exploited communities of our society", and has a vision of justice for rural California, "where all people are treated with dignity and respect, and guaranteed their fundamental rights". In pursuit of these, they publish many helpful resources, some of which deal directly with discrimination and harassment. See their downloadable brochures.

 

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
1-(800) 669-4000
350 The Embarcadero, # 500
San Francisco, CA
94105
www.eeoc.gov/field/sanfrancisco

CA Dept. of Fair Employment & Housing
1-(800) 884-1684
1515 Clay Street, Suite 701
Oakland, CA
94612
www.dfeh.ca.gov

Equal Rights Advocates, Proyecto La Voz 
(415) 621-0505
180 Howard St, Ste 300, San Francisco, CA
94105 
equalrights.org/tag/proyecto-la-voz