This chapter may be cited as the “State Fair Employment Practices Act.”
R.I. Gen. Laws § 28-5-1
Short title
Known as the State Fair Employment Practices Act
The act spans §§ 28–28 (52 sections).
Applied in 43 court decisions — leading case Hodgens v. General Dynamics Corp. (1998)
Most recently applied in Pena v. Honeywell Int'l, Inc. (April 2019)
P.L. 1949, ch. 2181, § 13; G.L. 1956, § 28-5-1.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Rhode Island General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Rhode Island statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.