Title 23
Health and Safety

Chapter 17.28
Hospital Workplace Violence Protection Act

R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17.28-4

§ 23-17.28-4. Retaliation prohibited.

It is an unlawful employment practice for any person to bar or discharge from employment or otherwise discriminate against any employee or prospective employee because the employee or prospective employee has:

(1) Made any complaint or instituted, or caused to be instituted, any proceeding under or related to this chapter, or has testified, or is about to testify, in any such proceeding; or

(2) In good faith reported an assault that occurred on the premises of a hospital.

History of Section.
P.L. 2021, ch. 330, § 1, effective January 15, 2022; P.L. 2021, ch. 331, § 1, effective January 15, 2022.