Code: 

Labor Code

Title: 

Title 5. Workers’ Compensation

Section: 

451.001

Name: 

Discrimination Against Employees Prohibited

Eff. Date: 

September 1, 1993

No Rule Reference

§451.001
Discrimination Against Employees Prohibited

A person may not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against an employee because the employee has:

(1) filed a workers’ compensation claim in good faith;

(2) hired a lawyer to represent the employee in a claim;

(3) instituted or caused to be instituted in good faith a proceeding under Subtitle A;1 or

(4) testified or is about to testify in a proceeding under Subtitle A.

Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 269, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.