Workforce Data Attorney

The California Civil Rights Department (CRD) enforces the state’s robust civil rights laws, including the Fair Employment and Housing Act, the Unruh Civil Rights Act, the Disabled Persons Act, the Ralph Civil Rights act, and the Trafficking Victims Protection Act.CRD has jurisdiction over complaints against public and private entities operating in California. With offices in six locations throughout California, CRD receives, investigates, and initiates individual and systemic discrimination complaints. CRD’s Legal Division provides strategic guidance in complex investigations; litigates individual and pattern-or-practice cases in state and federal courts throughout the state; and provides general counsel support to the Department. CRD’s Legal Division employs approximately seventy attorneys and staff throughout California.

Under the general direction of an Assistant Chief Counsel, the Attorney IV/Workforce Data Attorney supports the Legal Division’s enforcement of employers’ obligations to report annual pay data (Government Code section 12999), including through non-filer review, providing technical legal support to other Department staff concerning the collection and analysis of pay data reporting, supporting the promulgation of necessary regulations, and leading the Department’s efforts to enforce compliance with pay data reporting requirements. The Workforce Data Attorney works closely with the Legal Division’s Workforce Data Officer to identify possible systemic violations of civil rights laws within the Department’s enforcement jurisdiction relating to compensation discrimination and unequal pay and works with other Legal Division staff on discovery and workforce data analysis in civil rights enforcement actions.

*This position is designated as Part-Time.