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The FEHA also prohibits retaliation against anyone for opposing any practice forbidden by the Act or for filing a complaint, testifying, or assisting in proceedings under the FEHA. An amendment passed in 1978 requires employers to provide an unpaid job-protected leave to employees disabled by pregnancy (also known as "pregnancy disability leave ...
The CROWN (Create a Respectful and Open Workplace for Natural Hair) Act (SB 188) is a California law which prohibits discrimination based on hair style and hair texture by extending protection under the FEHA and the California Education Code. It is the first legislation passed at the state level in the United States to prohibit such discrimination.
The FEPA and the Rumford Fair Housing Act were combined and renamed the Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA), to protect Californians from both employment and housing discrimination. The FEHA predates and provides broader protections than its federal counterparts, Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1968 Fair Housing Act.
What has changed since the law was enacted. ERISA turned 50 in September. The job market, the state of the middle class, and the nature of work have all evolved in that half-century. Here are some ...
Alaska Alaska Constitution, Article I, §3 (1972, protecting equality on the basis of "race, color, creed, sex or national origin") Anti-Discrimination Act of 1945
[1] [4] The bill that was passed and signed into law by Governor Pat Brown in 1959 was authored by Augustus F. Hawkins. In 1946, a fair employment practices measure that would have created a statewide commission to enforce the proposed provisions appeared on the ballot as Proposition 11, but was decisively defeated. [ 3 ]
The Social Security Fairness Act (SSFA), which was recently signed into law by former president Joe Biden, eliminates rules that reduce Social Security benefits for those who also get income from...
The Unruh Civil Rights Act (colloquially the "Unruh Act") is an expansive 1959 California law that prohibits California businesses from engaging in unlawful discrimination against all persons (consumers) within California's jurisdiction, where the unlawful discrimination is in part based on a person's sex, race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, age, disability, medical condition ...