A.  Legal Background.

            Under the FEHA it is “an unlawful employment practice” for an “employer” to discharge a person from employment “because of race [or] sex . . . .”[2]  It is also an unlawful employment practice for an “employer . . . to discharge, expel, or otherwise discriminate against any person because the person has opposed any practices forbidden under [the FEHA] . . . .”[3]

[2]          Government Code section 12940, subdivision (a).

[3]          Government Code section 12940, subdivision (h).