How An Employee Who Files A Claim Against An Employer In California May Be Protected From Potential Retaliation – Retaliation can come in many different forms. Retaliation generally is when somebody complains about bad acts by a manager, and as a result of that complaint to, let’s say, a human resources worker, the employee starts to suffer adverse treatment as a result. There is the level of protection, but at the end of the day, what a lot of businesses try to do is cover their tracks and create reasons why that employee was not a good employee.