Workplace Discrimination Lawyer in Ventura

Disability Discrimination

Employers in Ventura are expected to abide by Equal Employment Opportunity laws. As a result, employees with disabilities cannot be singled out among their coworkers. This can occur in a number of ways. For example, an employee cannot avoid promoting a disabled worker under the assumption that their disability would bar them from performing their job adequately.

Additionally, if an employer fails to make reasonable adjustments for an employee living with a disability, this may also be used as grounds for employment discrimination.

Hiring Discrimination

Hiring discrimination is when an employer may skip over hiring a qualified candidate due to some personal bias or possibly even prejudicial practices that have become common within a company. For example, if a qualified job applicant requests the ability to wear religious garments in the workplace, it is unlawful for an employer to reject the applicant based solely on that request.

Hiring discrimination can also occur under many other circumstances:

• Employer avoiding the hiring of applicants of a certain age
• Employer not hiring applicants of a certain race
• Employer discriminating against applicants due to their name or other arbitrary factors

Race-Based Employment Discrimination

Race-based employment discrimination occurs when an employer commits prejudicial acts against an employee or allows a culture of prejudice against one or more employees due to their race. For instance, if a Ventura, California company frequently allows its workers to make racist remarks under the veil of a joke, this can be considered race-based discrimination.

Race-based discrimination can also be used to disqualify workers from advancing in the workplace. For example, an employer may avoid promoting a worker due to their race, or they may place unreasonable goals on a worker in order to decrease their chances of earning a promotion.

Gender-Based Employment Discrimination

Gender-based employment discrimination happens when an employee faces bias due to their sex or gender. Gender-based discrimination can include many issues that may cause a hostile work environment. For example, if an employer purposely gives certain tasks to only male employees, this may make other employees feel they are their career progress is being affected.

It is important to note that gender-based discrimination is not limited to just men or women. Depending on the work environment, any individual could be a victim of gender-based discrimination.

There are many other instances of employment discrimination that are not discussed above. Our firm recognizes the burdens an employee may experience when they feel trapped in a workplace due to unfair treatment. We are here to help you bring an employment discrimination lawsuit against the employer that allowed a prejudicial workplace to continue unchecked.

We look forward to working with you on your potential case.