§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.