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Bill Allowing Counties, Cities To Investigate Workers' Discrimination Complaints Moves Forward

  •  Sally Schilling 
Tuesday, May 9, 2017 | Sacramento, CA

California workers with discrimination complaints against employers could soon turn to their local governments for relief. A new bill that would allow counties and cities to investigate such claims passed the state Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday. 

Lola Smallwood-Cuevas is director of the Black Worker Center in Los Angeles.

She says state and federal employment departments are taking an average of one to two years to process discrimination claims made by employees of private businesses or government agencies.

“We need every jurisdiction to be able to do that," says Smallwood-Cuevas. "We need cities, we need counties, we need the state, we need the federal government to work together to ensure those rights are protected.”

Smallwood-Cuevas says some workers claim they are discriminated against when applying for promotions.

She says a recent study by her organization found black workers in California are three times as likely as white workers to be stuck in entry-level roles.

For black workers that become managers, the study found they earn just 76 percent of white managers’ wages.

The bill has no official opponents and now heads to the Senate floor.


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Sally Schilling is a Davis native and a graduate of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. She has reported on redwood poachers robbing national forests in Humboldt County and the dangers of melting tropical glaciers in the Peruvian Andes.  Read Full Bio 

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