No person shall discharge or in any manner discriminate against any employee because such employee has filed any complaint or instituted, or caused to be instituted, any proceeding under or relating to statutes, rules or regulations regarding occupational safety and health, or testified, or is about to testify, in any such proceedings or because of the exercise by such employee on behalf of himself or others of any right afforded by such statutes, rules or regulations.
S.C. Code Ann. § 41-15-510
Employees shall not be discriminated against for filing complaints and instituting proceedings
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case Eldeco Incorporated v. National Labor Relations Board (1997)
Most recently applied in Eldeco Incorporated v. National Labor Relations Board (December 1997)
1962 Code SECTION 40-453.2; 1973 (58) 379.
Official source: South Carolina Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Carolina statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.