Civil Litigation,
Labor/Employment
Jan. 2, 2020
Punitive protection for whistleblowers
Employment lawyers are familiar with the full spectrum of remedies available to employees under the Fair Employment and Housing Act, including punitive damages.
Marshall Lurtz
Email: mlurtz@lurtzlegal.com
Marshall Lurtz is founder and managing partner of Lurtz Legal, an employment law firm in San Diego, California.
Employment lawyers are familiar with the full spectrum of remedies available to employees under the Fair Employment and Housing Act, including punitive damages. Less kFnown is the availability of punitive damages under the increasingly popular Labor Code Section 1102.5, also known as the whistleblower protection statute. The statute itself says nothing about punitive damages. But that did not stop the 6th District Court of Appeal in
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