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Labor/Employment

Jul. 30, 2025

Harassment claims are hot in California

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Bryan J. Schwartz

Principal and Co-Lead Counsel in Vaughn v. Tesla
Bryan Schwartz Law, P.C.

Phone: (510) 444-9300

Email: bryan@bryanschwartzlaw.com

UC Berkeley SOL Boalt Hall; Berkeley CA

Bryan represents workers in wage-and-hour, discrimination, whistleblower, qui tam, and other class, collective, representative, and individual actions. He has been named one of the state's top labor and employment lawyers by the Daily Journal every year since 2015.

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Harassment claims are hot in California

California has long led the nation in protecting against workplace harassment, covered by the state's Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA). Those protections got a major boost from the Supreme Court in last July's decision, Bailey v. San Francisco District Attorney's Office (2024) 16 Cal.5th 611. Other cases building upon Bailey, plus the first certified harassment class action in California, have made the last year an auspicious one for advocates on behalf of harassment vict...

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