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Law Offices of Timothy Bowles, P.C.

This firm specializes in employment law and litigation for employers. Our goal is to enable clients to pursue their worthwhile ends by constructive and ethical means. We are committed to providing professional skills and results of the highest caliber.

This law practice represents employers in government agency actions and civil cases, including defense of workplace discrimination, harassment and retaliation claims. We have successfully handled matters alleging racial, religious, age and gender discrimination in the workplace. We also perform the preventative work of helping clients establish and maintain sensible workplace policies which promote staff initiative and company stability.

The firm also handles a wide range of civil litigation, including civil rights, contract and trade secret disputes. This law practice is expanding into prosecution of psychiatric abuse litigation, including fraud, assault, and malpractice cases.

Only in rare instances does the firm represent employees in resolving workplace-related disputes. On inquiry from employees, the firm will apply its best efforts to refer them to other counsel that specialize in such representation.

Similarly, for specialty areas in which we do not practice, we refer inquiring public to other lawyers to outside the office with experience in those spheres. Such areas include but are not limited to family disputes, immigration, tax, intellectual property, and criminal matters.

Other than psychiatrically related work, this office does not handle personal injury claims.

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RUDE, CRUDE AND SOCIALLY UNACCEPTABLE

ARBITRATION OF EMPLOYMENT DISPUTES

MEAL AND REST PERIODS IN THE WORKPLACE

CALIFORNIA'S NEW EMPLOYMENT LAWS

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Lawfully Dethroning the Workplace Despot

We all agree disruptive workplace incidents distract from harmony and productivity. One of the more prevalent and sometimes inadequately addressed workplace disruptions concerns rude, boorish employees. Their bullying can include personal insults, verbal attacks, inappropriate teasing and sarcasm, belittling another’s intelligence or capabilities, and maligning someone’s reputation through gossip and rumor-mongering.

Is Rude Workplace Behavior Unlawful?

Although California has adopted anti-harassment laws, it has yet to enact “civility” laws. Several states have attempted such regulation, including California’s unsuccessful Healthy Workplace Bill of 2003. By declaring all abusive workplace conduct unlawful, such bills seek broader protection for employees facing workplace harassment, regardless of whether the abuse was directed to an employee belonging to a protected classification (race, gender, national origin, religion, etc.). Even without such formal prohibitions, employers may be at risk for ignoring bullying behavior.

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