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<section article="gle" article_name="Labor and Employment" number="5-604" title_number="5" title_name="Occupational Safety and Health" subtitle_number="6">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>An employer or other person may not discharge or otherwise discriminate against an employee on the basis of information gained through participation of the employee in group medical coverage.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>This title does not prevent an employer from using medical information that:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>has a direct, material, and timely relationship to the capacity or fitness of an employee to perform the job of the employee properly; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>differs substantially from medical information that the employee falsely provides in an application for employment.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>An employer or other person may not discharge or otherwise discriminate against an employee because the employee:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>files a complaint under or related to this title;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>brings an action under this title or a proceeding under or related to this title or causes the action or proceeding to be brought;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>has testified or will testify in an action under this title or a proceeding under or related to this title;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>exercises, for the employee or another, a right under this title; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>is an essential worker who files a complaint or exercises a right under § 3–1604 of this article.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <level label="i">
        <text>Subject to subparagraph (ii) of this paragraph, an employee who believes that an employer or other person has discharged or otherwise discriminated against the employee in violation of subsection (a) or (b) of this section may submit to the Commissioner a written complaint that alleges the discrimination and that includes the signature of the employee.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The Commissioner shall accept as timely an oral complaint made by the employee under the circumstances described in subparagraph (i) of this paragraph, provided the employee submits a written complaint within 7 business days of the oral complaint and that includes the signature of the employee.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>An employee shall file a complaint under this subsection within 30 days after the alleged discrimination occurs.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>On receipt of a complaint under subsection (c) of this section, the Commissioner may investigate.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>If, after investigation, the Commissioner determines that an employer or other person has violated subsection (a) or (b) of this section, the Commissioner shall file a complaint to enjoin the violation, to reinstate the employee to the former position with back pay, or for other appropriate relief in the circuit court for:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the county in which the alleged violation occurred;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the county in which the employer has its principal office; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Baltimore City.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Within 90 days after the Commissioner receives a complaint, the Commissioner shall notify the employee of the determination under this subsection.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
