Rhode Island General Laws 23-20.10-8. Nonretaliation
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No person or employer shall discharge, refuse to hire or in any manner retaliate against an employee, applicant for employment or customer because that employee, applicant or customer exercises any rights afforded by this chapter or reports or attempts to prosecute a violation of this chapter.
History of Section.
P.L. 2004, ch. 198, § 2; P.L. 2004, ch. 209, § 2.
Terms Used In Rhode Island General Laws 23-20.10-8
- Employee: means a person who is employed by an employer in consideration for direct or indirect monetary wages or profit and a person who volunteers his or her services for a nonprofit entity. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-20.10-2
- Employer: means a person, business, partnership, association, corporation, including a municipal corporation, trust, or nonprofit entity that employs the services of one or more individual persons. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-20.10-2
- person: may be construed to extend to and include co-partnerships and bodies corporate and politic. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-6
- Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.