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Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
Testify: means to make an oral statement under oath or affirmation. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
Testify: Answer questions in court.
Wages: means the amounts due the employee for labor or services, whether the amount is fixed or ascertained on a time, task, piece, commission basis or other method of calculating such amount. See Utah Code 34-28-2
(a)
An employer violates this chapter if the employer takes an action described in Subsection (1)(b) against an employee because:
(i)
the employee files a complaint or testifies in a proceeding relative to the enforcement of this chapter;
(ii)
the employee is going to file a complaint or testify in a proceeding relative to the enforcement of this chapter; or
(iii)
the employer believes that the employee may file a complaint or testify in any proceeding relative to the enforcement of this chapter.
(b)
Subsection (1)(a) applies to the following actions of an employer:
(i)
the discharge of an employee;
(ii)
the demotion of an employee; or
(iii)
any other form of retaliation against an employee in the terms, privileges, or conditions of employment.
(2)
(a)
An employee claiming to be aggrieved by an action of the employer in violation of Subsection (1) may file with the division a request for agency action.
(b)
On receipt of a request for agency action under Subsection (2)(a), the division:
