1101.  No employer shall make, adopt, or enforce any rule,
regulation, or policy:
   (a) Forbidding or preventing employees from engaging or
participating in politics or from becoming candidates for public
office.
   (b) Controlling or directing, or tending to control or direct the
political activities or affiliations of employees.



1102.  No employer shall coerce or influence or attempt to coerce or
influence his employees through or by means of threat of discharge
or loss of employment to adopt or follow or refrain from adopting or
following any particular course or line of political action or
political activity.



1102.5.  (a) No employer shall make, adopt, or enforce any rule,
regulation, or policy preventing an employee from disclosing
information to a government or law enforcement agency, where the
employee has reasonable cause to believe that the information
discloses a violation of state or federal statute, or violation or
noncompliance with a state or federal regulation.
   (b) No employer shall retaliate against an employee for disclosing
information to a government or law enforcement agency, where the
employee has reasonable cause to believe that the information
discloses a violation of state or federal statute, or violation or
noncompliance with a state or federal regulation.
   (c) This section shall not apply to rules, regulations, or
policies which implement, or to actions by employers against
employees who violate, the confidentiality of the lawyer-client
privilege of Article 3 (commencing with Section 950), the
physician-patient privilege of Article 6 (commencing with Section
990) of Chapter 4 of Division 8 of the Evidence Code, or trade secret
information.



1103.  Any employer who violates this chapter is guilty of a
misdemeanor punishable, in the case of an individual, by imprisonment
in the county jail not to exceed one year or a fine of not to exceed
$1,000 or both and, in the case of a corporation, by a fine of not
to exceed $5,000.



1104.  In all prosecutions under this chapter, the employer is
responsible for the acts of his managers, officers, agents, and
employees.


1105.  Nothing in this chapter shall prevent the injured employee
from recovering damages from his employer for injury suffered through
a violation of this chapter.



1106.  For purposes of Sections 1102.5, 1103, 1104, and 1105,
"employee" includes, but is not limited to, any individual employed
by the state or any subdivision thereof, any county, city, city and
county, including any charter city or county, and any school
district, community college district, municipal or public
corporation, political subdivision, or the University of California.

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