Bicvan Brown

Bicvan Brown is a partner in Tressler's Irvine, California office and Chair of the firm’s national Labor and Employment Practice Group. She focuses her practice in all aspects of employment matters, including employment trials, arbitrations and mediations. She defends employers while providing advice and counsel against claims such as wage and hour (individual and class actions), PAGA, wrongful termination, sexual harassment, discrimination, retaliation and whistleblowing. She defends employers before state and federal agencies such as the EEOC, NLRB, California Labor Commission and California Department of Fair Employment and Housing. She is fluent in Vietnamese and Spanish and she provides advice about as well as translates workplace policies, employee handbooks and agreements. She regularly speaks at seminars, including sexual harassment prevention training conducted in Vietnamese, with the purpose of helping employers and their insurers regarding best practices to minimize risk in California.

California Employers Beware: California Supreme Court’s New Meaning of “Disclose” in Labor Code 1102.5(b) Whistleblowing Claims

By Bicvan Brown / May 23, 2023

On May 22, 2023, the California Supreme Court decided People ex rel. Garcia Brower v. Kolla’s, Inc. (SC S269456 5/22/23). The question presented was whether a report of unlawful activities made to an employer or agency that already knew about the violation is a protected “disclosure” within the meaning of California Labor Code section 1102.5(b). …

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