Protected Classes in California | Protected Activities in California | Workplace Behaviors | Workplace Actions | Rights and Responsibilities |
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What is Equal Opportunity Employment?
Fair and equal treatment of all applicants and employees, civil rights protections, and prohibition of employment actions based on a protected class or activity.
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What is a protected activity under Section 7 of the NLRA?
Speaking to a co-worker about your recent raise
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What is the Platinum Rule?
Treat others as they want to be treated
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What is Quid Pro Quo Harassment?
Offering a raise to your employee in exchange for a kiss
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What is the DFEH or
What is the Department of Fair Employment and Housing?
State Agency which handles discrimination claims
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What is National Origin?
Protection class for and individual's country of birth.
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What is request for religious practice accommodation?
Asking your supervisor for Saturday off to attend Synagogue
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What is Anywhere?
Locations where harassment can occur
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What is retaliation? or
What is unlawful retaliation?
Relocating a female receptionist wearing a head-scarf to a cubicle out of sight of others
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What is Vicarious Liability?
Principle that the employer will always have responsibility for harassment claims in the workplace
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What is Gender Expression?
Gender related appearance & behavior differs from that assigned at birth
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What is reporting a potential safety concern?
Letting a supervisor know that there is water leaking on the floor of the lunchroom
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What is hostile work environment?
Claim type filed for witnessing regular and repeated harassment of others
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What is discrimination? or
What is unlawful discrimination?
Hiring only males to drive forklifts in your warehouse facility
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What are companies and individual supervisors?
Parties with potential responsible for liability in California harassment cases
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What is Age?
Protection class for a worker born in 1972
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What is filing a Wage Claim?
Completing and submitting a DLSE Form 1
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What are Visual, Verbal and Physical?
Three main categories of harassing behaviors
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What is the Bona Fide Occupational Qualification Rule?
Rule sometimes allowing an employer to seek and employ a specific class of individual
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What is the Reasonable Person standard?
The standard or viewpoint applied in assessing California claims
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What is Disability OR
What is Mental Condition
One protection class for a worker with Bipolar disorder
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What is disputing company paid sick leave policy?
Notifying HR that the sick hours on your pay stub are calculated incorrectly
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What is Gratuitous Sabotage?
Willfully undermining a persons work performance
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What is constructive discharge?
Creating a negative, pervasive work environment that causes an employee to quit
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What is the Avoidable Consequences Doctrine?
Doctrine under which an employer may be able to reduce claim liability
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What is "intention" of the party?
Behavioral quality of harasser that is not considered or defensible when assessing harassment claims in California
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