If a company or corporation in this state authorizes or allows any of its agents to blacklist or if a person does blacklist any discharged employee or attempts by word or writing or any other means to prevent any discharged employee or any employee who may have voluntarily left the company's service from obtaining employment with another person, except as provided for in 39-2-802, the company, corporation, or person is liable in punitive damages to the employee prevented from obtaining employment, to be recovered in a civil action, and is also punishable as provided in 39-2-804.
Mont. Code Ann. § 39-2-803
Blacklisting prohibited
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case Loparex, LLC v. MPI Release Technologies, LLC (2012)
Most recently applied in Loparex, LLC v. MPI Release Technologies, LLC (March 2012)
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Official source: Montana Code Annotated (Montana Legislature). Reproduced from public-domain Montana statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.