Tenpas v. Riverside Community College Dist. CA4/1
Plaintiff and appellant Cynthia Tenpas, a tenured faculty librarian and former college administrator, sued her employer, defendant and respondent Riverside Community College District (the District), for damages on two theories of retaliation for protected conduct. (Cal. Fair Employment & Housing Act (FEHA), Gov. Code, § 12900 et seq.; Lab. Code, § 1102.5 [unlawful for employer to retaliate against employee for disclosing to superior/agency the employee's reasonable beliefs that unlawful conduct is occurring at workplace].) Tenpas sought to prove that her administrative position as an associate dean at one of the District's campuses was eliminated through an administrative reorganization that was actually carried out as a pretext for retaliating against her for taking medical leave for disability, or reporting a hostile workplace environment. (§ 12940, subds. (h), (m).)
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