New Hampshire Employment Discrimination Law
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New Hampshire employment discrimination law is located in the following sections of the New Hampshire Code.
Law Against Discrimination
- 354-A:2 Definitions.
- 354-A:7 Unlawful Discriminatory Practices.
- 354-A:19 Retaliation and Required Records.
- 354-A:20 Required Records.
Equal Pay
- 275:36 Definitions.
- 275:37 Equal Pay.
National Guard
- 110-B:65. Discrimination prohibited.
Tobacco Products
- 275:37-a. Discrimination prohibited.
Genetic Testing
- Sec. 141-H:3. Genetic Testing Discrimination Prohibited
Breastfeeding
Law Against Discrimination
354-A:2 Definitions. In this chapter:
I. "Commercial structure' means any building, structure, or portion thereof which is continuously or intermittently
occupied or intended for occupancy by a commercial or recreational enterprise, whether operated for profit or not,
and any vacant land which is offered for sale or lease for the construction or location thereon of any such building,
structure, or portion thereof.
II. "Commission,' unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context, means the state commission
for human rights created by this chapter.
III. "Covered multifamily dwellings' means:
(a) Buildings consisting of 4 or more units if such buildings have one or more elevators; and
(b) Ground floor units in other buildings consisting of 4 or more units.
IV. "Disability' means, with respect to a person:
(a) A physical or mental impairment which substantially limits one or more of such person's major life activities;
(b) A record of having such an impairment; or
(c) Being regarded as having such an impairment. Provided, that "disability' does not include current, illegal
use of or addiction to a controlled substance as defined in the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 802 sec. 102).
V. "Dwelling' means any building, structure, or portion thereof which is occupied as, or designed or intended
for occupancy as, a residence by one or more families, and any vacant land which is offered for sale or lease for
the construction or location thereon of any such building, structure, or portion thereof.
VI. "Employee' does not include any individual employed by a parent, spouse or child, or any individual in
the domestic service of any person.
VII. "Employer" does not include any employer with fewer than 6 persons in its employ, an exclusively
social club, or a fraternal or religious association or corporation, if such club, association, or corporation
is not organized for private profit, as evidenced by declarations filed with the Internal Revenue Service or for
those not recognized by the Internal Revenue Service, those organizations recognized by the New Hampshire secretary
of state. Entities claiming to be religious organizations, including religious educational entities, may file a
good faith declaration with the human rights commission that the organization is an organization affiliated with,
or its operations are in accordance with the doctrine and teaching of a recognized and organized religion to provide
evidence of their religious status. "Employer" shall include the state and all political subdivisions,
boards, departments, and commissions thereof.
VIII. "Employment agency' includes any person undertaking to procure employees or opportunities to work.
IX. "Familial status' means one or more individuals, who have not attained the age of 18 years of age, and
are domiciled with:
(a) A parent, grandparent or another person having legal custody of such individual or individuals; or
(b) The designee of such parent or other person having such custody, with the written permission of such parent
or other person. "Familial status' also means any person who is pregnant or is in the process of securing
legal custody of any individual who has not attained the age of 18 years.
X. "Labor organization' includes any organization which exists and is constituted for the purpose, in whole
or in part, of collective bargaining or of dealing with employers concerning grievances, terms or conditions of
employment, or of other mutual aid or protection in connection with employment.
XI. "Multiple dwelling' means 2 or more dwellings, as defined in paragraph V, occupied by families living
independently of each other.
XII. "National origin' includes ancestry.
XIII. "Person' includes one or more individuals, partnerships, associations, corporations, legal representatives,
mutual companies, joint-stock companies, trusts, trustees in bankruptcy, receivers, and the state and all political
subdivisions, boards, and commissions thereof.
XIV. "Place of public accommodation' includes any inn, tavern or hotel, whether conducted for entertainment,
the housing or lodging of transient guests, or for the benefit, use or accommodations of those seeking health,
recreation or rest, any restaurant, eating house, public conveyance on land or water, bathhouse, barbershop, theater,
golf course, sports arena, health care provider, and music or other public hall, store or other establishment which
caters or offers its services or facilities or goods to the general public. "Public accommodation' shall not
include any institution or club which is in its nature distinctly private.
XIV-a. "Qualified individual with a disability" means an individual with a disability who, with or without
reasonable accommodation, can perform the essential functions of the employment position that such individual holds
or desires. For the purposes of this chapter, consideration shall be given to the employer's judgment as to what
functions of a job are essential, and if an employer has prepared a written description before advertising or interviewing
applicants for the job, this description shall be considered evidence of the essential functions of the job.
XIV-b. "Reasonable accommodation" may include:
(a) Making existing facilities used by employees readily accessible to and usable by individuals with disabilities.
(b) Job restructuring, part-time or modified work schedules, reassignment to a vacant position, acquisition or
modification of equipment or devices, appropriate adjustment or modifications of examinations, training materials
or policies, the provision of qualified readers or interpreters, and other similar accommodations for individuals
with disabilities.
XIV-c. "Sexual orientation" means having or being perceived as having an orientation for heterosexuality,
bisexuality, or homosexuality. This definition is intended to describe the status of persons and does not render
lawful any conduct prohibited by the criminal laws of this state or impose any duty on a religious organization.
This definition does not confer legislative approval of such status, but is intended to assure basic rights afforded
under this chapter.
XIV-d. "Undue hardship" means an action requiring significant difficulty or expense, when considered
in light of the factors set forth in this paragraph. In determining whether an accommodation would impose an undue
hardship on an employer, factors to be considered include:
(a) The nature and cost of the accommodation needed under this chapter.
(b) The overall financial resources of the facility involved in the provision of the reasonable accommodation;
the number of persons employed at such facility; the effect on expenses and resources, or the impact otherwise
of such accommodation upon the operation of the facility.
(c) The overall financial resources of the employer; the overall size of the business of an employer with respect
to the number of its employees; and the number, type, and location of its facilities.
(d) The type of operation or operations of the employer, including the composition, structure, and functions of
the workforce of such employer; the geographic separateness, administrative, or fiscal relationship of the facility
in question to the employer.
XV. "Unlawful discriminatory practice' includes:
(a) Practices prohibited by RSA 354-A;
(b) Practices prohibited by the federal Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended (PL 88-352);
(c) Practices prohibited by Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968, as amended (42 U.S.C. Sec. &sec 3601-3619);
(d) Aiding, abetting, inciting, compelling or coercing another or attempting to aid, abet, incite, compel or coerce
another to commit an unlawful discriminatory practice or obstructing or preventing any person from complying with
this chapter or any order issued under the authority of this chapter.
354-A:7 Unlawful Discriminatory Practices. It shall be an unlawful discriminatory practice:
I. For an employer, because of the age, sex, race, color, marital status, physical or mental disability, religious
creed, or national origin of any individual, to refuse to hire or employ or to bar or to discharge from employment
such individual or to discriminate against such individual in compensation or in terms, conditions or privileges
of employment, unless based upon a bona fide occupational qualification. In addition, no person shall be denied
the benefit of the rights afforded by this paragraph on account of that person's sexual orientation.
II. For a labor organization, because of the age, sex, race, color, marital status, physical or mental disability,
creed, or national origin of any individual, to exclude from full membership rights or to expel from its membership
such individual or to discriminate in any way against any of its members or against any employer or any individual
employed by an employer, unless based upon a bona fide occupational qualification. In addition, no person shall
be denied the benefit of the rights afforded by this paragraph on account of that person's sexual orientation.
III. For any employer or employment agency to print or circulate or to cause to be printed or circulated any statement,
advertisement or publication, or to use any form of application for employment or to make any inquiry or record
in connection with employment, which expresses, directly or indirectly, any limitation, specification or discrimination
as to age, sex, race, color, marital status, physical or mental disability, religious creed or national origin
or any intent to make any such limitation, specification or discrimination in any way on the ground of age, sex,
race, color, marital status, physical or mental disability, religious creed or national origin, unless based upon
a bona fide occupational qualification; provided, however, that nothing in this chapter shall limit an employer
after the offer of hire of an individual from inquiring into and keeping records of any existing or pre-existing
physical or mental conditions. In addition, no person shall be denied the benefit of the rights afforded by this
paragraph on account of that person's sexual orientation.
IV. For any employee to be required, as a condition of employment, to retire upon or before reaching a specified
predetermined chronological age, or after completion of a specified number of years of service unless such employee
was elected or appointed for a specified term or required to retire pursuant to Pt. II, Art. 78 of the constitution
of New Hampshire. It shall not be unlawful for an employer to: (a) Establish a normal retirement age, based on
chronological age or length of service or both, which may be used to govern eligibility for and accrual of pension
or other retirement benefits; provided that such normal retirement age shall not be used to justify retirement
of or failure to hire any individual; or (b) Require any individual employee to retire on the basis of a finding
that the employee can no longer meet such bona fide, reasonable standards of job performance as the employer may
have established.
V. Harassment on the basis of sex constitutes unlawful sex discrimination. Unwelcome sexual advances, requests
for sexual favors, and other verbal, non-verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature constitutes sexual harassment
when:
(a) Submission to such conduct is made either explicitly or implicitly a term or condition of an individual's
employment;
(b) Submission to or rejection of such conduct by an individual is used as the basis for employment decisions affecting
such individual; or
(c) Such conduct has the purpose or effect of unreasonably interfering with an individual's work performance or
creating an intimidating, hostile, or offensive working environment.
VI.
(a) For the purposes of this chapter, the word "sex' includes pregnancy and medical conditions which result
from pregnancy.
(b) An employer shall permit a female employee to take leave of absence for the period of temporary physical disability
resulting from pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions. When the employee is physically able to return
to work, her original job or a comparable position shall be made available to her by the employer unless business
necessity makes this impossible or unreasonable.
(c) For all other employment related purposes, including receipt of benefits under fringe benefit programs, pregnancy,
childbirth, and related medical conditions shall be considered temporary disabilities, and a female employee affected
by pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions shall be treated in the same manner as any employee affected
by any other temporary disability.
VII.
(a) For any employer not to make reasonable accommodations for the known physical or mental limitations of a
qualified individual with a disability who is an applicant or employee, unless such employer can demonstrate that
the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of the business of the employer.
(b) For any employer to deny employment opportunities, compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment
to a job applicant or employee who is a qualified individual with a disability, if such denial is based on the
need of such employer to make reasonable accommodation to the physical or mental impairments of the applicant or
employee.
354-A:19 Retaliation and Required Records.
It shall be an unlawful discriminatory practice for any person engaged in any activity to which this chapter
applies to discharge, expel, or otherwise retaliate or discriminate against any person because he has opposed any
practices forbidden under this chapter or because he has filed a complaint, testified or assisted in any proceeding
under this chapter.
354-A:20 Required Records.
It shall not be an unlawful discriminatory practice to record any data required by law, or by the rules and
regulations of any state or federal agency, provided such records are kept in good faith for the purpose of complying
with law, and are not used for the purpose of discrimination in violation of this chapter.
354-A:21 Procedure on Complaints.
I.
(a) Any person claiming to be aggrieved by an unlawful discriminatory practice may make, sign and file with
the commission a verified complaint in writing which shall state the name and address of the person, employer,
labor organization, employment agency or public accommodation alleged to have committed the unlawful discriminatory
practice complained of and which shall set forth the particulars thereof and contain such other information as
may be required by the commission. The attorney general or one of the commissioners may, in like manner, make,
sign, and file such complaint.
(b) In connection with the filing of such complaint, the attorney general is authorized to take proof, issue subpoenas
and administer oaths in the manner provided in the civil practice law and rules. Any employer whose employees,
or some of them, refuse or threaten to refuse to cooperate with the provisions of this chapter, may file with the
commission a verified complaint asking for assistance by conciliation or other remedial action.
II.
(a) After the filing of any complaint, one of the commissioners designated by the chair shall make, with the
assistance of the commission's staff, prompt investigation in connection therewith; during the course of the investigation,
the commission shall encourage the parties to resolve their differences through settlement negotiations; and if
such commissioner shall determine after such investigation that probable cause exists for crediting the allegations
of the complaint, the commissioner shall immediately endeavor to eliminate the unlawful discriminatory practice
complained of by conference, conciliation and persuasion. The members of the commission and its staff shall not
disclose what has occurred in the course of such endeavors, provided that the commission may publish the facts
in the case of any complaint which has been dismissed, and the terms of conciliation when the complaint has been
so disposed of. When the investigating commissioner finds no probable cause to credit the allegations in the complaint,
the complaint shall be dismissed, subject to a right of appeal to superior court. To prevail on appeal, the moving
party shall establish that the commission decision is unlawful or unreasonable by a clear preponderance of the
evidence. The findings of the investigating commissioner upon questions of fact shall be upheld as long as the
record contains credible evidence to support them. If it reverses the finding of the investigating commissioner,
the superior court shall remand the case for further proceedings in accordance with RSA 354-A:21, II, unless the
complainant or respondent elects to proceed with a hearing in superior court pursuant to RSA 354-A:21-a.
(b) In case of failure to eliminate an unlawful discriminatory practice complained of, or in advance thereof, if,
in the judgment of the commissioner making the investigation, circumstances so warrant, the commissioner shall
cause to be issued and served in the name of the commission, a written notice, together with a copy of such complaint,
as the same may have been amended, requiring the person, employer, labor organization or employment agency named
in such complaint, hereinafter referred to as respondent, to answer charges of such complaint at a hearing before
3 members of the commission, designated by the chair and sitting as the commission, at a time and place to be fixed
by the chair and specified in such notice. The place of any such hearing shall be the office of the commission
or such other place as may be designated by it.
(c) The case in support of the complaint may be presented before the commission by the complainant or complainant's
representative and the commissioner who shall have previously made the investigation and caused the notice to be
issued shall not participate in the hearing except as a witness, nor shall he participate in the subsequent deliberation
of the commission in such case; and the aforesaid endeavors at conciliation shall not be received in evidence.
The respondent shall file a written verified answer to the complaint and appear at such hearing in person or otherwise,
with or without counsel, and submit testimony. The commission or the complainant shall have the power reasonably
and fairly to amend any complaint, and the respondent shall have like power to amend his answer. The commission
shall not be bound by the strict rules of evidence prevailing in courts of law or equity. The testimony taken at
the hearing shall be under oath and transcribed at the request of any party. The cost of transcription shall be
borne by the party requesting the transcript.
(d) If, upon all the evidence at the hearing, the commission shall find that a respondent has engaged in any unlawful
discriminatory practice as defined in this chapter, the commission shall state its findings of fact and shall issue
and cause to be served on such respondent an order requiring such respondent to cease and desist from such unlawful
discriminatory practice and to take such affirmative action, including, but not limited to, hiring, reinstatement
or upgrading of employees, with or without back pay, restoration to membership in any respondent labor organization,
or the extension of full, equal and unsegregated accommodations, advantages, facilities and privileges to all persons,
as in the judgment of the commission, will effectuate the purpose of this chapter and including a requirement for
report of the manner of compliance. Such cease and desist orders for affirmative relief may be issued to operate
prospectively. The commission may also order compensatory damages to be paid to the complainant by the respondent
and, in order to vindicate the public interest, order the respondent to pay an administrative fine. The administrative
fine shall be deposited in the general fund. The amount of the administrative fine shall not exceed:
(1) $10,000 if the respondent has not been adjudged to have committed any prior discriminatory practice in any
administrative hearing or civil action.
(2) $25,000 if the respondent has been adjudged to have committed a prior discriminatory practice in any administrative
hearing or civil action and the adjudication was made no more than 5 years prior to the date of filing the current
charge.
(3) $50,000 if the respondent has been adjudged to have committed 2 or more discriminatory practices in any administrative
hearings or civil actions and the adjudications were made during the 7-year period preceding the date of filing
of the charge.
(e) When issuing an order awarding back pay, the commission shall calculate the back pay award by determining
the amount the complainant would have earned but for the unlawful discriminatory practice. The commission shall
subtract from that amount any unemployment compensation or interim earnings received by the complainant for the
time period covered by the back pay award.
(f) If upon all the evidence the commission shall find that a respondent has not engaged in any such unlawful discriminatory
practice, the commission shall state its findings of fact and shall issue and cause to be served on the complainant
an order dismissing the said complaint as to such respondent. A copy of its order shall be delivered in all cases
to the attorney general, and such other public officers as the commission deems relevant or proper. The commission
shall establish rules of practice to govern, expedite and effectuate the foregoing procedure and its own actions
thereunder. If the commission finds that the complaint is frivolous, unreasonable, or without foundation, then
the commission, upon motion of the respondent or on its own motion, may award against the complainant the amount
of costs and attorneys' fees incurred by the respondent, provided such costs and fees are reasonable.
III. Any complaint filed pursuant to this section by an aggrieved person must be filed within 180 days after
the alleged act of discrimination. Any complaint filed pursuant to this section by the attorney general or one
of the commissioners must be so filed within 180 days after the alleged unlawful discriminatory practice.
IV. In administering this section, the commission shall be exempt from the provisions of RSA 541-A:29, II, but
shall close each case or commence adjudicative proceedings on such case under RSA 354-A:21 within 24 months after
the filing date of the complaint.
354-A:21-a Choice of Forum.
I. Any party alleging to be aggrieved by any practice made unlawful under this chapter may, at the expiration
of 180 days after the timely filing of a complaint with the commission, or sooner if the commission assents in
writing, but not later than 3 years after the alleged unlawful practice occurred, bring a civil action for damages
or injunctive relief or both, in the superior court for the county in which the alleged unlawful practice occurred
or in the county of residence of the party, to the same extent as damages and injunctive relief could be awarded
by the commission in a complaint not removed. Any party alleged to have committed any practice made unlawful under
this chapter may, in any case in which a determination of probable cause has been made by the investigating commissioner,
remove said complaint to superior court for trial. A superior court trial shall not be available to any party if
a hearing before the commission has begun or has concluded pursuant to RSA 354-A:21, II(b), or to a complainant
whose charge has been dismissed as lacking in probable cause who has not prevailed on an appeal to superior court
pursuant to RSA 354-A:21, II(a). In superior court, either party is entitled to a trial by jury on any issue of
fact in an action for damages regardless of whether the complaining party seeks affirmative relief.
II. The charging party shall notify the commission of the filing of any superior court action, and the respondent
shall notify the commission of the removal to superior court after a finding of probable cause. After such notice,
the commission shall dismiss the complaint without prejudice. A party electing to file a civil action with the
superior court under paragraph I shall be barred from bringing any subsequent complaint before the commission based
upon the same alleged unlawful discriminatory practice.
354-A:22 Judicial Review and Enforcement.
I. Any complainant, respondent or other person aggrieved by such order of the commission may obtain judicial
review of the order, and the commission or any interested person may obtain an order of court for its enforcement,
in a proceeding as provided in this section. Such proceeding shall be brought in the superior court of the state
within any county in which the unlawful practice which is the subject of the commission's order occurs or in which
any person required in the order to cease and desist from an unlawful practice or to take other affirmative action
resides or transacts business.
II. Such proceeding shall be initiated by the filing of a petition in such court, together with a written transcript
of the record upon the hearing before the commission in the case of a petition for judicial review, and issuance
and service of an order of notice as in proceedings in equity. The court shall have power to grant such temporary
relief or restraining order as it deems just and proper, and to make and enter upon the pleadings, testimony and
proceedings set forth in such transcript an order or decree enforcing, modifying, and enforcing as so modified,
or setting aside in whole or in part the order of the commission, with full power to issue injunctions against
any respondent and to punish for contempt of court. No objection that has not been urged before the commission
shall be considered by the court, unless the failure or neglect to urge such objection shall be excused because
of extraordinary circumstances. In petitions to enforce commission orders, the court may, in its discretion, award
the complaining party reasonable attorney's fees and costs.
III. Any party may move the court to remit the case to the commission in the interests of justice for the purpose
of adducing additional specified and material evidence and seeking findings thereon, or in the alternative to move
the court to accept such additional evidence itself, provided he shows reasonable grounds for the failure to adduce
such evidence before the commission. The superior court shall have the authority to make all rulings of law, findings
of fact and determinations of damages and fines, if any, notwithstanding any such rulings, findings or determinations
made by the commission. All such proceedings shall be heard and determined by the court as expeditiously as possible
and shall take precedence over all other matters before it, except matters of like nature. The jurisdiction of
the superior court shall be exclusive and its final order or decree shall be subject to review by the supreme court
in the same manner and form and with the same effect as in appeals from a final order or decree in proceedings
in equity.
IV. The commission's copy of the testimony shall be available at all reasonable times to all parties for examination
and for the purposes of judicial review of the order of the commission. The review shall be heard on the record
without requirement of printing. The commission may appear in court by one of its attorneys. A proceeding under
this section when instituted by any complainant, respondent or other person aggrieved must be instituted within
30 days after the service of the order of the commission.
V. If the complainant brings an action in federal court arising out of the same claims of discrimination which
formed the basis of an order or decision of the commission, such order or decision shall be vacated and any appeal
therefrom pending in any state court shall be dismissed.
354-A:23 Posting of Commission Notices.
Every person, employer, employment agency, labor union, real estate agency and rental office subject to this
chapter shall post in a conspicuous place or places on his premises a notice to be prepared or approved by the
commission, which shall set forth excerpts of this chapter and such other relevant information which the commission
deems necessary to explain the chapter. Any employer, employment agency, real estate agency, rental office or labor
union refusing to comply with the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a violation if a natural person,
or guilty of a misdemeanor if any other person.
Equal Pay
275:36 Definitions.
"Employee' as used in this subdivision shall mean any person employed for hire by an employer in any lawful
employment, but shall not include persons engaged in domestic service in the home of the employer, or in agricultural
service, or in temporary or seasonal employment, or employees of any social club, fraternal, charitable, educational,
religious, scientific or literary association, no part of the net earnings of which inures to the benefit of any
private individual. "Employer' shall include any person acting in the interest of an employer directly or
indirectly. "Employment' means any employment under contract of hire, expressed or implied, written or oral,
including all contracts entered into by helpers and assistants of employees, whether paid by employer or employee,
if employed with the knowledge, actual or constructive, of the employer in which all or the greater part of the
work is to be performed within the state.
275:37 Equal Pay.
No employer shall discriminate in the payment of wages as between the sexes, or shall pay any employee in his
or her employ salary or wage rates less than the rates paid to employees of the opposite sex for equal work or
work on the same operations. However, nothing in this subdivision shall prohibit a variation in rates of pay based
upon a marked difference in seniority, experience, training, skill, ability, or difference in duties and services
performed, either regularly or occasionally, or difference in the shift or time of the day worked, or difference
in availability for other operation, or other reasonable differentiation except difference in sex. A variation
in rates of pay as between the sexes is not prohibited where such variation is provided by contract between the
employer and the recognized bargaining agent of the employees or, in case there is no such bargaining agent, where
such variation is provided by written agreement or contract between the employer and not less than 5 of the employees.
275:38 Enforcement.
The labor commissioner shall have the power and it shall be his duty to enforce the provisions of this subdivision.
275:39 Liquidated Damages.
An employer who violates the provisions of RSA 275:37 shall be liable to the employee or employees affected
in the amount of their unpaid wages, and in an additional equal amount of liquidated damages. Action to recover
such liability may be maintained in any court of competent jurisdiction by any one or more employees for and in
behalf of himself or themselves and other employees similarly situated. At the request of any employee paid less
than the wage to which she is entitled under this subdivision, the labor commissioner may take an assignment of
such wage claim in trust for the assigning employee and may bring any legal action necessary to collect such claim,
and the liquidated damages above provided for. The commissioner shall not be required to pay the entry fee, or
other costs, in connection with such action. The commissioner shall have power to join various claimants against
the employer in one cause of action.
275:40 Penalties.
Any employer who violates any provision hereof, or who discharges or in any other manner discriminates against
any employee because such employee has made a complaint to his employer, the labor commissioner, or any other person,
or instituted, or caused to be instituted any proceedings under or related to this subdivision, or has testified
or is about to testify in any such proceeding, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
275:41 Limitation of Actions.
Any action to recover unpaid wages and liquidated damages based on violation of RSA 275:37, must be commenced
within one year of the accrual thereof and not afterwards.
National Guard
110-B:65. Discrimination prohibited.
I. It is hereby declared to be the policy of the state there shall be equality of treatment and opportunity
for all persons in the national guard without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, age or sex, to the
full extent required by federal law or regulations.
II. No private person, corporation, partnership or unit or official of state, county or local government shall
deprive members of the national guard of their employment, or deny then employment, or discriminate against them
with respect to the terms and conditions of their employment, or prevent their being employed by another, or obstruct
or annoy then or their employer in respect of their trade, business or employment because of their connection with
the national guard, or because their absence from business in the performance of their duty as such; and no person
shall dissuade any person from enlisting in said national guard by threat of injury to them in respect of their
employment, trade or business, or of other injury of they shall so enlist. Any person violating the provisions
of this paragraph shall be guilty of a misdemeanor of a natural person guilty of a felony if any other person.
III. Any member discriminated against shall have a private cause of action for money damages and injunctive relief
against any person or entity discriminating in violation of this section. If relief is granted, the prevailing
member of the national guard shall recover reasonable attorneys' fees and costs.
Tobacco Products
275:37-a. Discrimination prohibited.
No employer shall require as a condition of employment that any employee or applicant for employment abstain
from using tobacco products outside the course of employment, as long as the employee complies with any workplace
policy, pursuant to RSA 155:51-53 and, when applicable, RSA 155:64-77.
Genetic Testing
Sec. 141-H:3.
I. No employer, labor organization, employment agency, or licensing agency shall directly or indirectly:
(a) Solicit, require or administer genetic testing relating to any individual as a condition of employment,
labor organization membership, or licensure.
(b) Affect the terms, conditions, or privileges of employment, labor organization membership, or licensure or terminate
the employment, labor organization membership, or licensure of any individual based on genetic testing.
II. Except as provided in paragraph IV of this section, no person shall sell or otherwise provide to an employer,
labor organization, employment agency or licensing agency any genetic testing relating to an employee, labor organization
member or licensee or to a prospective employee, labor organization member or licensee.
III. Any agreement between an employer, labor organization, employment agency, or licensing agency and an individual
offering employment, labor organization membership, licensure, or any pay or benefit to that individual in return
for taking a genetic test is prohibited.
IV. This section shall not prohibit the genetic testing of an employee who requests to undergo genetic testing
and who provides written and informed consent to genetic testing for any of the following purposes:
(a) Investigating a worker's compensation claim under RSA 281-A.
(b) Determining the employee's susceptibility or level of exposure to potentially toxic chemicals or potentially
toxic substances in the workplace, if the employer does not terminate the employee, or take any other action that
adversely affects any term, condition, or privilege of the employee's employment, as a result of genetic testing.
V. This section shall not prohibit or limit genetic testing for evidence of insurability with respect to life,
disability income, or long-term care insurance under the terms of an employee benefit plan.
Breastfeeding
132:10-d Breast-feeding.
Breast-feeding a child does not constitute an act of indecent exposure and to restrict or limit the right of
a mother to breast-feed her child is discriminatory.
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