Cal Matters: A small world: How caste discrimination came to California

June 20. 2023

ERA Policy Director Jessica Ramey Stender is quoted in a Cal Matters article:

But Jessica Ramey Stender, policy director with Equal Rights Advocates, which provides legal assistance to workers, said the bill is necessary to add clarity, despite existing protections.

“The key to a discrimination case, of course, is that you are treated differently or adversely based on a protected characteristic,” she said. “And so if the two workers who are being treated differently are of the same race, national origin or ancestry, they may not be able to establish a claim if (they’re) being discriminated against based on being of a different caste.”

Read the article.