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Sexual harassment in Riverside happens in the same places you go every day: patient floors at Riverside Community Hospital / HCA (4445 Magnolia Avenue - 517-bed acute care hospital, 100 Top Hospitals) and Kaiser Permanente Riverside Medical Center (10800 Magnolia Avenue - expanding to 359 beds); classrooms and offices at UC Riverside (900 University Avenue - UC Regents campus, ~26,000 students), Riverside Unified School District (48 schools, 2,332 employees), and Riverside Community College District (Riverside City College at 4800 Magnolia Avenue, plus Moreno Valley and Norco colleges); the Mission Inn Hotel & Spa and the Galleria at Tyler; warehouses across the Inland Empire logistics corridor; March Air Reserve Base (6,500 acres straddling I-215 between Riverside and Moreno Valley); the Riverside Hall of Justice and George E. Brown Jr. Federal Building / U.S. District Court Eastern Division; and City of Riverside offices at 3900 Main Street. The most common Riverside pattern is unwanted touching, comments, or pressure from a supervisor, coworker, patient, or customer, followed by retaliation when the worker reports it.
Riverside has no separate citywide minimum-wage, hotel-worker, fair-workweek, healthcare-worker, or paid-sick-leave ordinance beyond California state law. Riverside is a charter city (incorporated October 11, 1883) and reserves the right to enact local labor ordinances in the future under its police power. Riverside workers currently rely on the state-level floor under California Labor Code section 1182.12 ($16.90/hour effective January 1, 2026) plus industry-specific state rules including AB 1228 ($20/hour fast-food), SB 525 (healthcare-worker tiered schedule - directly relevant to Riverside Community Hospital and Kaiser Permanente Riverside workers), and AB 701 (warehouse quotas - directly relevant to Inland Empire warehouse workers).
Education
- Higher-education workers - at the University of California
- Riverside / UCR (900 University Avenue - one of 10 UC campuses
- ~26
- 000 students; faculty and staff are UC employees covered by the Higher Education Employer-Employee Relations Act / HEERA - Cal. Government Code sections 3560-3599 - with collective bargaining through CFA
- CSUEU
- Teamsters Local 2010
- and other unions; protected by Skelly v. State Personnel Board (1975) 15 Cal.3d 194 due-process rights and California Whistleblower Protection Act
- Cal. Government Code section 8547; UCR claims go to the Regents of the University of California). K-12 and community-college workers - at Riverside Unified School District / RUSD (48 schools
- approximately 2
- 332 employees per LinkedIn
- 1
- 676 classroom teachers; 15th-17th largest district in California) and Riverside Community College District / RCCD (district office at 3801 Market Street; operates Riverside City College at 4800 Magnolia Avenue plus Moreno Valley College and Norco College). Protected by Skelly due-process rights and California Whistleblower Protection Act. Retail
- hospitality
- and small-business workers - at the Galleria at Tyler (1299 Galleria at Tyler - major regional mall)
- the historic Mission Inn Hotel & Spa (3649 Mission Inn Avenue - one of California's most historic hotels)
- Riverside Plaza
- and along Magnolia Avenue
- University Avenue
- and Van Buren Boulevard. Fast-food workers at chains with 60 or more national locations earn the $20.00/hour AB 1228 floor (California Labor Code section 1474).