HAMMOND v. COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES PART II
Plaintiff raised triable issues as to timeliness of her claims of age and race discrimination in violation of FEHA by presenting evidence supporting a reasonable inference that defendant engaged in acts some within the one year limitations period each of which was intentionally discriminatory. Where plaintiff was employed as a nursing instructor, evidence that defendant substantially reduced plaintiff's teaching assignments and that this reduction in classes was attributable to race and age was sufficient to raise a triable issue of fact concerning whether plaintiff suffered an adverse employment action. Evidence that plaintiff's supervisor made a racial comment about plaintiff, an African American, to a co worker, and also made derogatory racial comments to plaintiff concerning her African American coworkers, and that supervisor substantially reduced plaintiff's teaching assignments and excessively monitored plaintiff's classroom performance when plaintiff was allowed to teach would permit a reasonable trier of fact to infer that plaintiff's race motivated supervisor's conduct in taking away the majority of her teaching assignments and giving them to instructors who were not African American, and in monitoring plaintiff's performance while not monitoring the nursing instructors who were not African American, and thus raised a triable issue of fact as to whether supervisor's conduct was severe and pervasive enough to alter the conditions of plaintiff's employment and thereby constituted actionable racial harassment.
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