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Do-It-Yourself: sample letters, toolkits, and guides

Legal Aid at Work offers free information online, including the following sample letters, toolkits, and guides

You can also learn about your workplace rights during a variety of free trainings that we offer at the offices of partner organizations and in consulates and other venues across California.

Sample Letters: how to communicate with your employer



Letter: Health Care Provider Support of Pregnancy Leave

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Letter: Health Care Provider Support of Pregnancy Leave

A sample letter from your health care provider regarding pregnancy or childbirth-related disability leave under California law.

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Letter: Supporting Disability Leave

A guide for a letter from your health care provider regarding disability leave under California law.

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Letter: Employment References

A guide for notifying an employer about your rights when listing him/her as a job reference for future employment.

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Letter requesting personnel file and other employment records

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Letter: Vision Accommodation for Workers who are Blind or Visually Impaired

A guide for requesting reasonable accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the California Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) for workers who are blind or visually impaired.

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Letter: Transfer Accommodation

A guide for requesting reasonable accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the California Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) for transfer to a vacant position.

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Letter: Accommodation for Physical Space

A guide for requesting reasonable accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the California Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) for changes in your physical environment, or removing physical access barriers in your workplace.

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Letter: Accommodation for Modified Schedule

A guide to requesting reasonable accommodation for schedule modifications under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the California Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA).

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Letter: Accommodation for Modified Policy

A guide to requesting reasonable accommodation for policy modifications in the workplace under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the California Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA).

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Letter: Accommodation for Leaves of Absence

A guide to requesting reasonable accommodation for leaves of absence under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the California Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA).

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Letter: Accommodation for Job Restructuring

A guide to requesting reasonable accommodation for job restructuring (reassigning or reorganizing tasks) under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the California Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA).

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Letter: Accommodation for Communication Access for Workers Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing

A guide for requesting reasonable accommodation for communication access for workers who are deaf or hard of hearing under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the California Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA).

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Letter: Accommodation for Equipment

A guide to requesting reasonable accommodation for compatible ergonomic or other equipment in the workplace under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the California Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA).

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Letter: Doctor Support for Lactation Accommodation

A guide to requesting reasonable accommodation for lactation in the workplace under California and federal law.

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Letter: Request for Pregnancy Accommodation

A guide to requesting reasonable accommodation for a condition related to pregnancy under the Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA).

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Letter: Accommodation for Supervisory Method

Guide for requesting reasonable accommodation for adjusting supervisory methods under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the California Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA).

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样板信函:更新社会安全号码后被解雇

You may wish to use the sample letter on the next page if you are a worker in California and you were fired after you gave your employer a new Social Security Number.

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样本信: 只说英语的规定

You may wish to use the sample letter on the next page if you work in California and your employer makes you speak only English at work. This is commonly referred to as an “English- only” policy.

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样板信函:报复性质的再次证明工作许可

You may wish to use the sample letter on the next page if you are a worker in California who completed the I-9 form when you were hired, you have complained about a violation of your workplace rights, and your employer has now asked you to provide more or different documents to re-verify your eligibility to work in the United States.

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Letter: Re-verification of Employment Authorization

You may wish to use the sample letter on the next page if you are a worker in California who completed the I-9 form when you were hired, and your employer has now asked you to provide more or different documents to re-verify your eligibility to work in the United States.

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样本信: 跟的雇主更新社会安全号码

You may wish to use the sample letter on the next page if you work in California and your employer has refused to update your employment records with your new Social Security Number.

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样本信: 文件滥用

You may wish to use the sample letter on the next page if you have applied for a job and, as part of the Form I-9 verification process, the employer made you provide only certain documents, or required more or different documents than are legally required by the Form I-9.

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Toolkits: for employment rights and Title IX rights in California



General Toolkit: Surviver's Guide to Workplace Rights

A guide to requesting leaves of absence, workplace safety accommodations, and other employment protections for California survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, military sexual trauma, or stalking.

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Toolkit: Healthy Mothers Workplace Coalition toolkit for employees and employers on the benefits of family-friendly workplace polices.

This document includes sample policies, formal letters for employees to submit, checklists for employers and employees, and other resources.

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Toolkit: Fair Play Act Compliance

This Toolkit is designed to increase awareness of the Fair Play Act among departments and improve understanding about the law’s requirements. The Toolkit also contains ideas for park and recreation departments on how to expand girls’ participation in an effort to help departments comply with the Fair Play Act.

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