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The California Civil Rights Department (CRD), formerly known as the Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH), is an agency of California state government charged with the protection of residents from employment, housing and public accommodation discrimination, and hate violence.
California law and the FEHA also allow for the imposition of punitive damages [9] [10] when a corporate defendant's officers, directors or managing agents engage in harassment, discrimination, or retaliation, or when such persons approve or consciously disregard prohibited conduct by lower-level employees in violation of the rights or safety of the plaintiff or others.
A separate lawsuit using information discovered by DFEH was filed by attorney Lisa Bloom on behalf of a current employee going as "Jane Doe" asserting that she faced discrimination and harassment at Activision Blizzard, was discouraged from reporting incidents to management, and faced repercussions in her employment status when she did report ...
In recent years, the Filipino government has addressed the rights of women under a multitude of legislative schemes including workplace discrimination, domestic violence, sexual harassment and human trafficking. [1] The Philippines has one of the smallest rates of gender disparity in the world.
The Commission on Human Rights (Filipino: Komisyon ng Karapatang Pantao) (CHR) is an independent constitutional office created under the 1987 Constitution of the Philippines, with the primary function of investigating all forms of human rights violations involving civil and political rights in the Philippines. [2]
[1] [2] Prior to being repealed and reenacted under the California Fair Employment and Housing Act in 1980 the law was codified under part 4.5 of the Labor Code. [ 3 ] The FEPA as well as similar legislation passed earlier in other states (notably New York and New Jersey ) drew its inspiration from the Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC ...
The Violence and Harassment Convention, formally the Convention concerning the elimination of violence and harassment in the world of work is a convention to "recognize the right of everyone to a world of work free from violence and harassment, including gender-based violence and harassment". [2]
Harassment is a specific form of discrimination, [2] [3] and occurs when a person is the victim of unwanted intimidating, offensive, or humiliating behavior. To qualify as harassment, there must be a connection between the harassing behavior and a person's protected personal characteristics or prohibited grounds of discrimination, and the ...