Workplace Discrimination And Harassment

James

I have a problem at work. I work in california and in the past I feel I have been retaliated and discriminated by my employer and I keep forgiving them but they keep doing things that I think might be illegal. This is the latest thing. I was raised a Jehovah's witness and never celebrated christmas. I'm no longer a jehovah's witness and due to that my entire family shuns me, I also still do not celebrate christmas. My superviser where I work during a team meeting asked the team to provide pictures of christmas trees so we could all play a christmas game together. Then she said at the start of the meeting she wanted everyone to go around in a circle and tell everyone their family christmas traditions. Although my company seems be saying back to me it was our holiday traditions not specificlly christmas traditions. I left the meeting as I was upset by having to do that and complained to HR. HR said they spoke to my manager but several days later my manager put in our teams chat a picture of a attractive woman wearing a santa christmas outfit with the word naughty on the hat. I wanted to know the specific date they spoke with my supervisor to verify if my supervisor sent that picture before or after they spoke to her, but they refuse to tell me. And HR sent this response: - "It’s not our practice to provide that level of specificity, but as Haley shared, she did speak with Jalea about these concerns the week of December 23rd. I am sorry to hear that you were uncomfortable with some of the holiday conversations that were happening across the team. As you know, while Christmas is a common holiday for many, we strive for all Associates to feel included, regardless of the holidays they celebrate. We often ask our Associates to share their own personal or holiday traditions as a way to bring people together and celebrate the diverse backgrounds of our teams. - That was their response. My questions is did they do anything illegal or is their answer acceptable that they can ask employees to get infront of a large group of people to talk about their christmas or holiday traditions? What are your thoughts about this?

Yes