HLS 20RS-1107 ORIGINAL
2020 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 802
BY REPRESENTATIVE JEFFERSON
WORKERS COMPENSATION: Provides relative to reprisal under workers' compensation
1 AN ACT
2To enact R.S. 23:1201.2, relative to workers' compensation; to prohibit reprisal; to provide
3 for reporting unsafe working conditions or injuries under workers' compensation; to
4 provide for a definition; and to provide for related matters.
5Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
6 Section 1. R.S. 23:1201.2 is hereby enacted to read as follows:
7 ยง1201.2. Freedom from reprisal; disclosure of unsafe working conditions; report of
8 injury; immigration status
9 A.(1) Any employee who reports to a person or entity of competent authority
10 or jurisdiction, information which he reasonably believes indicates a violation of law,
11 rule, order, or regulation, or unsafe working conditions shall not be subject to reprisal
12 or threat of reprisal by the employer for reporting such acts.
13 (2) Any employee who in good faith reports a work injury for purposes of
14 receiving workers' compensation benefits, shall not be subject to reprisal or threat of
15 reprisal by the employer for reporting the injury.
16 B. For the purposes of this Section, "reprisal" shall mean any discipline or
17 punishment, or the act of an employer reporting to the authorities that the employee
18 is not lawfully permitted to work in the United States, in retaliation for the employee
19 reporting any violation of law, rule, order, regulation, or unsafe working conditions
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1 or for filing a workers' compensation claim for being injured during the course and
2 scope of his employment.
DIGEST
The digest printed below was prepared by House Legislative Services. It constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument. The keyword, one-liner, abstract, and digest do not constitute
part of the law or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
HB 802 Original 2020 Regular Session Jefferson
Abstract: Provides for the prohibition against reprisal for reporting unsafe working
conditions or work injuries under workers' compensation.
Proposed law provides that any employee shall not be subject to reprisal or threat or reprisal
when he reports to a person or entity of competent authority or jurisdiction, information
which he reasonably believes indicates violation of law, rule, order, regulation, or unsafe
working conditions.
Proposed law provides that any employee who in good faith reports a work injury for
purposes of receiving workers' compensation benefits, shall not be subject to reprisal or
threat of reprisal for reporting the injury.
Proposed law provides that "reprisal" shall mean any discipline or punishment, or the act of
an employer reporting to the authorities that the employee is not lawfully permitted to work
in the United States, in retaliation for the employee reporting any violation of law, rule,
order, regulation, or unsafe working conditions or for filing a workers' compensation claim
for being injured during the course and scope of his employment.
(Adds R.S. 23:1201.2)
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