No employer shall intimidate, threaten, restrain, coerce, blacklist, discharge, or in any manner discriminate against any employee who has filed any complaint or instituted or caused to be instituted any proceeding under this article or related law or who has testified or may testify in any proceeding on behalf of himself, herself, or another regarding afforded protections under this article. Any employer who violates the provisions of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than sixty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
Source: L. 2003: Entire article amended with relocations, p. 1862, § 1, effective August 6.
Editor's note: This section is similar to former § 8-4-124 as it existed prior to 2003, and the former § 8-4-120 was relocated to § 8-4-117.