Liberal Venue Rule Applies When Employee Works Remotely: California’s Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA), enacted in 1980, establishes a comprehensive framework to safeguard the right of all individuals to seek, obtain and hold employment free from discrimination. As one means of furthering FEHA’s express purpose to provide effective remedies for discriminatory practices, a special venue provision allows plaintiffs to file a lawsuit “in any county in the state in which the unlawful practice is alleged to have been committed, in the county in which the records relevant to the practice are maintained and administered, or in the county in which the aggrieved person would have worked … but for the unlawful practice.” A California court recently held that an employee working remotely can sue in the county where he works even though the employer’s offices were in a different county.