Source: http://www.whistleblowerprotectionact.com/new-mexico-whistleblower-protections/
Timestamp: 2020-05-30 23:19:34
Document Index: 744645232

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 10', '§ 10', '§ 10', '§ 10', '§ 27', '§ 27', '§ 44', '§ 44', '§ 50', '§ 50', '§ 50']

New Mexico Whistleblower Protections - Whistleblower Protection Act New Mexico Whistleblower Protections - Whistleblower Protection Act
All New Mexico citizens are protected by state and federal whistleblower laws. We have provided information about many of the laws in New Mexico below. For more information about federal laws, click here.
N.M. Stat. § 10-16c-1 et seq.
N.M. Stat. § 10-16c-2
Any public employee
B. “public employee” means a person who works for or contracts with a public employer
N.M. Stat. § 10-16c-3
communicates to the public employer or a third party information about an action or a failure to act that the public employee believes in good faith constitutes an unlawful or improper act;
provides information to, or testifies before, a public body as part of an investigation, hearing or inquiry into an unlawful or improper act; or
N.M. Stat. § 10-16c-4
N.M. Stat. § 27-14-1 et seq.
N.M. Stat. § 27-14-12
Any employee who is discharged, demoted, suspended, threatened, harassed or otherwise discriminated against in the terms and conditions of employment by the employer…
…Lawful acts done by the employee on behalf of the employee or others in disclosing information to the department or in furthering a false claims action pursuant to the Medicaid False Claims Act, including investigation for, initiation of, testimony for or assistance in an action filed or to be filed pursuant to that act, shall be entitled to all relief necessary to make the employee whole.
Such relief shall include reinstatement with the same seniority status that the employee would have had but for the discrimination, two times the amount of back pay, interest on the back pay and compensation for any special damages sustained as a result of the discrimination, including litigation costs and reasonable attorney fees. An employee may bring an action in the appropriate court of the state for the relief provided in this subsection.
N.M. Stat. § 44-9-1 et seq.
Any employee (see below).
N.M. Stat. § 44-9-11
N.M. Stat. § 50-9-25
N.M. Stat. § 50-9-25(A)
No person or employer shall discharge or in any manner discriminate against any employee because the employee has filed a complaint or instituted or caused to be instituted a proceeding under or related to the Occupational Health and Safety Act or has testified or is about to testify in any such proceeding or because of the exercise by the employee on behalf of himself or others of any right afforded by the Occupational Health and Safety Act.
N.M. Stat. § 50-9-25(B)
Any employee who believes that he has been discharged or otherwise discriminated against by any person in violation of this section may, within thirty days after such alleged violation occurs, file a complaint with the secretary, in writing and acknowledged by the employee, alleging such discrimination. Upon receipt of the complaint, the secretary shall cause such investigation to be made as he deems appropriate. Within sixty days of the receipt of a complaint filed under this section, the secretary shall notify the complainant of his determination. If, upon such investigation, the secretary determines that the provisions of this section have been violated, he shall file a petition in the district court for the political subdivision in which the alleged violation occurred to restrain the violation of Subsection A of this section and for other appropriate relief including rehiring or reinstatement of the employee to his former position with back pay.