California Financial Code

§ 90004

FIN § 90004 Effective Jan 1, 2021Div. 24 · Ch. 4

Statute text

(a)In addition to the prohibitions contained in Section 1102.5 of the Labor Code, a covered person or service provider shall not terminate or in any other way discriminate against, or cause to be terminated or discriminated against, any covered employee or any authorized representative of covered employees by reason of the fact that the employee or representative, whether at the initiative of the employee or in the ordinary course of the duties of the employee, or any person acting pursuant to a request of the employee, has either:

(1)Filed or instituted, or caused to be filed or instituted, any proceeding under any consumer financial law.

(2)Objected to, or refused to participate in, any activity, policy, practice, or assigned task that the employee or other such person reasonably believed to be in violation of any law, rule, order, standard, or prohibition, subject to the jurisdiction of, or enforceable by, the department.

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Legislative history

Added by Stats. 2020, Ch. 157, Sec. 7. (AB 1864) Effective January 1, 2021.