§2199.17. Retaliation in connection with reporting healthcare workplace violence; prohibition

            A. No regulated entity shall take any retaliatory action against a person who, in good faith, reports an allegation of or an instance of workplace violence.

            B. No regulated entity shall prohibit an employee from, or take punitive or retaliatory action against an employee for, seeking assistance and intervention from local emergency services or law enforcement when a violent incident occurs.

            C. No regulated entity shall discharge, demote, suspend, threaten, or harass an employee, or discriminate against an employee in the terms and conditions of his employment, because of any lawful act engaged in by the employee, or taken on behalf of the employee, in reporting to law enforcement a crime or allegation involving workplace violence at the regulated entity's facility.

            D. The employee protections provided for in this Section shall be in addition to, and shall not replace, any protections conferred by the provisions of Title 23 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950.

            Acts 2022, No. 461, §§1, 2B.