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Texas Labor Code - LAB § 451.001. Discrimination Against Employees Prohibited

Current as of April 14, 2021 | Updated by FindLaw Staff

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.

1  V.T.C.A., Labor Code § 401.001 et seq.
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