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Martha Martinez worked as a temporary packing employee at the Rancho Gordo warehouse in Napa from late 2019 through 2020. She alleged the company discriminated against her on the basis of sex, pregnancy and national origin, and that her dismissal was not the result of the “seasonal needs” the company cited.
After four days of deliberation — including breaking an initial deadlock — the jury found in her favor on the most significant claims: that her pregnancy was a factor in her termination, that the termination caused her real harm, and that the company retaliated by denying her future work after she complained.
Ana Maria Chavez Jimenez began working as a housekeeper at Chappellet — a prominent family estate on Pritchard Hill overlooking Lake Hennessey — in July 1995. Over nearly three decades she received consistently positive performance reviews while cleaning winery facilities, offices, tasting rooms and private residences.
In early 2024 she reported numbness in her hand and other physical limitations to her supervisor, and filed a workers’ compensation report in February 2024 documenting injuries to her neck, head, back, and left shoulder, arm, wrist and hand. According to the complaint, her supervisor told her to work more slowly but took no steps to modify her duties.
In August 2024 she was diagnosed with tendinitis in her left shoulder and placed on three months of medical restrictions — specifically, avoiding left shoulder rotation and lifting. She provided that documentation to human resources. The complaint alleges the winery did not engage in an interactive process, and that she was repeatedly denied a Spanish-language interpreter during critical employment meetings.
When a wage-and-hour case resolves and not every affected worker can be located to receive their share, the remaining funds are directed to an organization serving the same community — a mechanism called cy-près. In this farmworker case, Liberation Law Group designated La Raza Centro Legal, ensuring the recovered funds continued to support low-income and immigrant workers in San Francisco.
The funds support La Raza Centro Legal’s Workers’ Rights Program, which has spent decades protecting low-wage and immigrant workers in the city.
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