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EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION LAWYER

 

Our employment discrimination attorneys have been representing employees in workplace discrimination lawsuits since 1993. We have handled approximately 2,000 separate employment discrimination cases. Firm Founder, Karl Gerber, has won 45/46 of the binding arbitrations and trials he has first-chaired. All of our employment discrimination lawyers are experienced, and have tried cases in court. Click here to read about Mr. Gerber’s experience, and the appeals from his employee rights cases that have landed in California law books.

 

Call 1-877-525-0700 to speak to an experienced employment discrimination lawyer

 

DISCRIMINATION IN WORK

 

Workplace discrimination happens in all work environments. Many Silicon Valley executives are discriminated against based upon their country of origin as well as a variety of protected characteristics. In Santa Clara County we have also handled workplace discrimination cases for pregnancy discrimination, sexual harassment. Our Santa Clara county clients have ranged from minimum wage workers to professionals with ten-figure incomes.

 

Work discrimination is illegal under California and Federal employment law. The following is a brief list of protected characteristics:

 

• Age over 40
• Ancestry
• Color
• Disability
• Family Medical Leave Act Exercise of Rights (CFRA in California)
• Medical Conditions (cancer, genetics, H.I.V. status)
• National Origin
• Pregnancy
• Race
• Religion
• Sex
• Sexual Orientation

 

Discrimination, harassment, and retaliation are prohibited. Work discrimination involves unequal, disparate treatment due to a protected characteristic. It may also involve stereotypical notions or absurd perceptions. Harassment involves the verbal, physical, or written targeting of an employee due to a protected characteristic. In order to determine if workplace discrimination, harassment, or retaliation is illegal it is best to consult with an experienced employment discrimination lawyer.

 

EEOC EMPLOYMENT LAW

 

Because California employment laws are more favorable than Federal employment laws, our discrimination attorneys rarely utilize EEOC right-to-sue letters based upon Federal law.

 

Our discrimination attorneys will use Federal EEOC law in the following circumstances:

 

• A client went through the EEOC and exhausted their administrative remedies, they were not exhausted in the DFEH on a California state level and it is too late to obtain a right-to-sue letter from the California Department of Fair Housing and Employment


• The employment discrimination case is against a religious organization. California employment discrimination laws found in FEHA (the Fair Employment & Housing Act) do not apply to religious entity employers

 

Whether an employee believes California employment discrimination laws were violated, or Federal EEOC employment laws, we would appreciate hearing from you. Please contact our employment discrimination law firm at 1-877-525-0700.

Besides offices in San Jose, we also have offices in San Francisco and Sacramento. In Southern California we have multiple offices including an office in Los Angeles, Oxnard, Riverside, San Diego, Sherman Oaks, and Tustin.

 

Some of Our Northern California Discrimination Case Examples:

 

• $1,100,000 for Unpaid Sales Commissions in the IT Field
• $103,000 Present Cash Value Settlement for Sexual Harassment of a Lesbian by a Non-Profit Program Director
• $120,783 FMLA Medical Family Leave Violation Settlement
• Representation of a Doctor Fired for Whistleblowing at a Plastic Surgery Clinic
• Sexual Harassment Settlement for a Retail Worker
• $106,936 Present Cash Value for Pregnancy Discrimination & Sexual Harassment Settlement in the Mortgage Lending Field Settlement on Disability Discrimination & Termination

 

LET US BE YOUR EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION LAWYERS. CALL 1-877-525-0700

 

 

WE ADVANCE COURT COST.

ALL CASES ARE TAKE ON CONTINGENCY.

WE ARE ONLY PAID IF WE WIN!