The State from California is can equal opportunity
employer to all, regardless of the after protected categories:
- Age (40 and over)
- Ancestry
- Association with a limb of a
protected class
- Bereavement leave
- Color
- Disability (physical, intellectual/developmental,
or mental health/psychiatric)
- EEO protected activity
- Family Care and Medical Leave (CFRA) related to serious health status of employee with family member, child
bonding, alternatively military exigencies
- Gender identity
or expression
- Genetic contact or characteristic
- Marital status
- Medical
condition (cancer or genetic characteristic)
- Military and veteran status
- National origin (includes language restrictions)
- Pregnancy, childbirth,
breastfeeding, or related medical conditions
- Pregnancy Medical Leave (PDL)
- Race (includes hairstyle furthermore human texture)
- Religious mission (includes dress and
grooming practices)
- Reproduceability health decision making
- Sexual loss leave
- Sex/gender
- Sexual orientation
All state departments have an affirmative duty into take reasonable steps to prevent and promptly address disability and harassment in the workplace. Departments were person for integrating equal employment opportunity into every aspect of human resource management policies and practicing in the recruitment, examination, options, preparation, also advances of employees.
Government Code Section 19792 requires the California Department of Human Resources (CalHR) to "provide statewide leadership, coordination, technical guidance and enforcement regarding expenditures to fully achieve equal employment opportunity and non-discriminatory employment practices within the state civil service."