Protecting Parents: California’s Pregnancy and Parental Leave Laws
April 08, 2021
Bringing and nurturing new life into this world is a time filled with joy and excitement. In California, we have some of the country’s strongest employment leave laws that support and protect parents taking care of their newborns as well as parents welcoming children home through adoption and foster care. The Pregnancy Disability Leave Law […]
Read MoreEqual Pay for All Women
March 24, 2021
Equal Pay Day is a symbolic day of awareness of the gender pay gap that continues to wrongfully persist. This day is recognized in many countries throughout the world. Not only does it bring awareness to the severity and scale of gender discrimination, but it challenges us as a society to do better for gender […]
Read MoreFederal District Court Blocks Executive Order’s Ban on Anti-Discrimination Training
January 21, 2021
On December 22, 2020, a federal district court issued a nationwide preliminary injunction against President Trump’s Executive Order 13950 — Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping, affirming that prohibiting anti-racism and anti-discrimination workplace training may be a violation of the First Amendment. This injunction comes Santa Cruz Lesbian and Gay Community Center, et al. v. Donald […]
Read MoreCOVID-19 Relief for the American Workforce: The Families First Coronavirus Response Act
December 03, 2020
FFCRA: a temporary rule offers American workers & employers protections and relief under the Emergency Paid Sick Leave Act and the Emergency Family and Medical Leave Expansion Acts.
Read MoreBlack Lives Matter, Including at Work
November 14, 2020
Workers of color continue to be discriminated against. These 4 California Laws may aid the pursuit of justice and healing.
Read MoreDoing Better: Protecting Undocumented Survivors of Sexual and Domestic Violence
February 22, 2019
As the Trump Administration continues to issue unnecessary, relentless attacks on our nation’s immigrant population, undocumented survivors of domestic and sexual violence may feel even more powerless.
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