According to the International Dalit Solidarity Network, “Caste systems divide people into unequal and hierarchical social groups. Those at the bottom are considered ‘lesser human beings', ‘impure' and ‘polluting' to other caste groups. They are known to be ‘untouchable' and subjected to so-calle...
California's Fair Employment and Housing Act (the FEHA) is a state anti-discrimination law. It protects California employees from discrimination, harassment, and retaliation in the workplace on the basis of sex, sexual orientation, race, age, religion, and several other bases. The FEHA does not ...
In civil sexual harassment, sexual assault, and sexual battery cases, the plaintiff victim usually alleges severe emotional distress as one of the harms caused by the alleged sexual misconduct. When that happens, the defendants (usually the accused perpetrator and his employer) look for and try t...
Sadly, some men continue to sexually assault and batter women. Such outrageous conduct subjects those men to criminal liability and puts their freedom at stake. When it happens on a college campus, it subjects those men to other sanctions, as well, including expulsion. In a recent case involving ...
Religious employers have at their disposal some defenses that non-religious employers do not have in employment discrimination cases. One of the unique defenses—the ministerial exception—was at issue in a recently-decided case against a school located within the Los Angeles Archdiocese. The plai...
Many employees have asked about whether their employer can require them to get a COVID vaccine. But what about other vaccines, like the flu vaccine? In a recently-decided, but pre-COVID case out of the California Court of Appeal, the court held that that a hospital's firing of an administrative e...
California Labor Code § 1102.5 prohibits employers from retaliating against employees who disclose information concerning suspected violations of the law, whether such a disclosure is made to the employer itself or to a government or law enforcement agency. In a recently-decided case, the Califo...
