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Thursday, March 11, 2004

Those Elected Officials Better Vote For This One:

(Currently before the state legislature)

(b) No employer or an employer's agent, representative or designee may require its employees to attend an employer-sponsored meeting or participate in any communications with the employer or its agents or representatives, the primary purpose of which is to communicate the employer's opinion about religious or political matters, except that an employer or its agent, representative or designee may communicate to employees information about religious or political matters that the employer is required by law to communicate, but only to the extent of such legal requirement.

(c) No employer or an employer's agent, representative or designee shall discharge, discipline or otherwise penalize or threaten to discharge, discipline or otherwise penalize any employee because the employee, or a person acting on behalf of the employee, makes a good faith report, verbally or in writing, of a violation or a suspected violation of this section. The provisions of this subsection shall not be applicable when the employee knows that such report is false.

(d) Any aggrieved employee may enforce the provisions of this section by means of a civil action brought within ninety days of the date of the alleged violation in the superior court for the judicial district where the violation is alleged to have occurred or where the employer has its principal office. The court may award a prevailing employee all appropriate relief, including rehiring or reinstatement of the employee to the employee's former position, back pay and reestablishment of any employee benefits to which the employee would otherwise have been eligible if such violation had not occurred. The court shall award a prevailing employee treble damages, together with reasonable attorneys' fees and costs.

(e) Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit an employee's right to bring a common law cause of action against an employer for wrongful termination or to diminish or impair the rights of a person under any collective bargaining agreement.

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