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Workplace Harassment

Workplace Harassment

Workplace Harassment Lawyers Fighting for California Employees

Harassment at work is not just wrong—it’s illegal. If you’ve endured offensive, threatening, or humiliating behavior based on your race, gender, disability, or other protected status, you may have a claim under California and federal law. At Remedy Law Group, we help employees hold their employers accountable and pursue real compensation for unlawful harassment in the workplace.

What Is Workplace Harassment?

Workplace harassment occurs when someone engages in unwelcome conduct that targets you based on a protected characteristic—such as race, sex, national origin, or disability—and that conduct interferes with your ability to do your job. Examples include:

 

  • Offensive jokes or comments

  • Threats, insults, or ridicule

  • Unwanted touching or sexually suggestive behavior

  • Repeated remarks about your appearance, identity, or background

Harassment occurs when the harassing party engages in unwanted conduct or behavior that falls outside their job description or official duties. It might look like rude jokes or inappropriate comments that offend you or make you feel like your job security or safety is in jeopardy.

When Does Harassment Become Illegal?

While isolated rude comments may not meet the legal standard, harassment becomes unlawful when it’s severe or pervasive enough to create a hostile or abusive work environment. California employers are required to prevent and correct workplace harassment. If they fail to act—or worse, participate in the misconduct—they can be held legally responsible.

Harassment vs. Discrimination

Although related, harassment and discrimination are legally distinct:

 

    • Discrimination involves negative employment actions (like being fired or demoted) based on your protected status.

    • Harassment refers to demeaning, intimidating, or abusive behavior that’s not part of official job duties—but still affects your ability to work.

 

Whether you’ve experienced harassment, discrimination, or both, our experienced California employment lawyers will evaluate your situation and build a strategy to fight back.

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The circumstances of every case are different, but these are some of the recent settlements we won for our clients:

Employment Wins

Employment Case Results

$400,000 .

Disability discrimination and wrongful termination

$250,000 .

Disability discrimination and failure to accommodate disability

$175,000 .

Disability discrimination and wrongful termination

$150,000 .

Failure to hire due to perceived disability

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Workplace harassment takes a toll—emotionally, professionally, and financially. You don’t have to endure it in silence. Our Los Angeles-based team handles workplace harassment claims across California with the compassion, experience, and fierce advocacy you deserve.

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Based in Los Angeles, we represent clients throughout California, including Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino, Riverside, San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, and Ventura counties. We focus exclusively on Employment Law. Specializing in employment law allows us to fight even harder for our clients.

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Frequently Asked Questions

California employees are protected from workplace harassment under the Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA), which prohibits harassment based on protected characteristics such as race, gender, disability, religion, age, sexual orientation, and other protected categories.

Yes. Workplace harassment can affect job performance, career advancement, workplace safety, emotional well-being, and overall employment conditions. In some situations, it may give rise to legal claims under California employment law.

Employers may be held legally responsible if they fail to prevent workplace harassment, ignore complaints, fail to investigate misconduct, or allow a hostile work environment to continue.

Yes. Employers may still have a responsibility to protect employees from harassment committed by customers, clients, vendors, contractors, or other third parties.

Repeated insults, offensive language, intimidation, or humiliating conduct may qualify as workplace harassment when the behavior creates a hostile, intimidating, or abusive work environment.

Yes. Harassment can occur through emails, text messages, messaging platforms, video calls, social media, or other forms of workplace communication.

Employees may be able to recover lost wages, emotional distress damages, career-related losses, attorneys’ fees, and other compensation depending on the circumstances of the case.

Documentation can help establish patterns of misconduct, demonstrate the severity of the behavior, and support a legal claim if workplace harassment continues or escalates.

In some situations, multiple employees who have experienced similar harassment or hostile work environment issues may pursue legal claims together.

Remedy Law Group helps employees investigate workplace harassment claims, understand their legal rights, gather evidence, and pursue compensation when employers fail to prevent or address unlawful workplace conduct.

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