Is harassment of an employee based on their disability or other protected status prohibited?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Croxton-Narain v. Sterling & Sterling, Inc., B285240 (Cal. App. 2019):
Government Code section 12940, subdivision (j)(1) prohibits harassment of an employee based on the employee's physical disability or other protected status. Harassment implicates "'the social environment of the workplace,"' e.g. "'interpersonal relations,"' and manifests itself as intolerable "'verbal, physical, or visual"' communications to an employee. (Roby v. McKesson Corp. (2009) 47 Cal.4th 686, 706, 707.)
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