Legal Question in Employment Law in California

I believe that my employer is harassing me and retaliating against me.I am an employee of a corporation that employs over 1000 people. I make approximately 75K per year. I have worked for the company for 2 years and the company had me execute a contract giving me permission to work from home, that this could be terminated at any time however it also states that this is done with a 30 day notice in writing. I also had review a year ago and it was excellent. We have had an extreme slow down at work. My new branch manager of 5 months called me and told me that there is new management at the company , I would no longer be able to work from home and that I would have to be in the office at the beginning of the month. He told me that he wanted to forewarn me as he knew that I had a long commute and I may want to discuss this with my family. (I live by myself, that was weird.) I have commuted to the office in the past and my commute is equivalent to that of this manager. I did not receive a written notice. I showed up to the office out of respect for him, I explained to him that I needed the 30 day written notice to get my affairs in order. He told me that the agreement created by the old HR was now void. I assumed he would now be laying off one of my co-workers who has been with the company for a shorter time and has less experience. He then said that he was creating a new position for me, basically a demotion/ less pay, and that the less experienced employee earned her position because she showed up at the office every day as if my working from home was a mark against me. Since I received nothing via email I drove back in the next day to confirm that this was not yet drafted. I followed up with an email and requested that this be sent drafted asap in order to get the clock ticking. This turned into HR getting involved and finally drafting the 30 day notice. HR was trying to tell me that there was a discrepancy in the contract. I didn't draft it. Instead of just laying me off, they are trying to find another reason to get rid of me as to avoid the responsibility of the agreement. The branch manager called me after HR sent over the 30 days notice. He was very angry with me. He said that he did not know about this agreement. When I nicely corrected him regarding a statement he had made, he lost his temper, told me to be quiet, let him talk, I am the subordinate. I asked him when he would start transitioning files from the other employee over. He indicated that he was not. I asked HR to please make him stop. We, I had thought, resolved the situation. He should have apologized to me instead of calling me and yelling at me. He now wants a meeting, I'm assuming over the phone. He scares me. I had to go to the Doctor for massive anxiety and I was prescribed anti anxiety medication. I'm not a pill popper. I do not have bad marks on my employment record, we've simply slowed down. Not sure why they couldn't just lay me off instead of giving me such a difficult time. This is the 2nd hard time they gave me regarding contracts that they create. When I asked for what I was owed last year in bonuses, they gave me such a difficult time with that as well, about $20,000. It was the same difficult process and laying blame on me. I had filed a claim with the labor board and then they finally paid me. Same HR person was involved.

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