Los Angeles Sex Discrimination Lawyer

Sex is one of the five protected classes listed in Title VII of the original Civil Rights Act passed in 1964, alongside race, color, religion, and national origin. Under this landmark piece of federal legislation, employers in all industries are prohibited from discriminating in any way against a potential or current employee based solely on their assigned sex at birth. Legislation passed at the state level extends those protections to cover discrimination based on gender identity or expression in addition to discrimination based on biological sex.

If you have been denied employment, terminated from your job, or had your professional prospects negatively impacted in any way on the basis of gender, contact our Los Angeles sex discrimination lawyer as soon as possible. You may have grounds to seek various remedies, including significant financial compensation, from the person or people who discriminated against you. Support from our experienced employment attorneys at Levin & Nalbandyan Trial Lawyers could be key to getting the best possible case result.

What Qualifies as Unlawful Gender Discrimination in the Workplace?

Most forms of sex-based discrimination are addressed either by Title VII of the federal Civil Rights Act or by the California Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA). Both Acts prohibit harassment, denial of opportunities, and all other forms of mistreatment by an employer or fellow employee predicated on an employee’s sex. FEHA goes much farther in defining sex to include minority gender identities and sexualities.

Depending on the circumstances, you may have grounds to take legal action over mistreatment ranging from being denied a job offer for no reason other than your sex to a supervisor repeatedly making sexual comments around you or treating you differently from opposite-gender employees during performance reviews. In both types of scenarios, our dedicated Los Angeles attorneys could help you collect as much evidence as possible to establish that sex-based discrimination occurred. We could take action by filing complaints with the California Civil Rights Department (CRD) or the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).

Seeking Remedies for Sex-Based Discrimination

If a complaint to the CRD or EEOC results in one or both departments finding evidence of discrimination through their own investigation, they can authorize you to sue for compensatory damages. These damages are designed to make up for specific forms of harm you suffered and could include:

• Reimbursement for lost work income, with interest
• Reinstatement in a previously held position
• Reimbursement for legal fees and court costs
• Compensation for emotional distress and humiliation

The court could elect to impose additional punitive damages against employers who engage in particularly egregious discrimination. However, there are caps on how much money can be awarded as punitive damages in gender discrimination cases, as our Los Angeles lawyers could further explain during an initial consultation.

Speak With a Los Angeles Attorney About Your Gender Discrimination Case

As an employee in the state of California, you have extensive protections against all forms of discrimination based on your sex, gender, or sexual identity that extend well beyond the protections afforded to people in many other states. Unfortunately, that does not mean that seeking fair remedies for harm caused by this type of discrimination is easy or something you should try to do on your own.

Our attorneys at Levin & Nalbandyan Trial Lawyers have years of experience fighting to enforce the rights of people dealing with unjust situations much like yours. Call today to set up a meeting with our Los Angeles sex discrimination lawyer and learn what we could do to assist you.