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What Is Marital Status Discrimination
Freedom From Marital Status Discrimination in the Workplace is a Civil Right
Marital status discrimination can manifest in various forms, including:
- Hiring Bias: Employers might be biased in their hiring practices for a variety of reasons, including the applicant's marital or single status.
- Promotion Denial: Employees may not get a chance to move up because of their marital situation instead of their skills or performance.
- Unequal Benefits: Depending on a person's marital situation, they may get different benefits or privileges at work, like health insurance or retirement benefits.
- Work Assignments: Choosing tasks, schedules, or job responsibilities for an employee based on their marital situation instead of their skills on the job.
- Hostile Work Environment: Creating a toxic or unfair work environment for people with a certain type of relationship.
Talk to a Los Angeles Marital Status Discrimination Lawyer today.
California Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA), California Government Code sections 12900 – 12996
The Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) is California's primary law prohibiting discrimination in the workplace. The FEHA states that it is illegal for an employer to discriminate against a person in hiring, firing, training, or other employment-related activities based on the individual's marital status. Article 12940(a) of the California Government Code.
As stated in the text of the law, "the purpose of the law prohibiting marital status discrimination is to make it unlawful for an employer... to deny or grant employment benefits for the reason that an applicant or employee is either married or unmarried." Title 2, section 11052 of the California Regulations.
