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§2615 Prohibited Acts

Title 29 › Chapter 28— FAMILY AND MEDICAL LEAVE › Subchapter I— GENERAL REQUIREMENTS FOR LEAVE › § 2615

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

Employers must not stop, limit, or punish workers for using or trying to use any rights this law gives. Employers also must not fire or treat someone badly for speaking up against a practice that breaks this law. No one may fire or punish a person for filing a complaint, starting a related case, giving information, or testifying about rights under this law.

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Title 29, §2615

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(a)(1)It shall be unlawful for any employer to interfere with, restrain, or deny the exercise of or the attempt to exercise, any right provided under this subchapter.
(2)It shall be unlawful for any employer to discharge or in any other manner discriminate against any individual for opposing any practice made unlawful by this subchapter.
(b)It shall be unlawful for any person to discharge or in any other manner discriminate against any individual because such individual—
(1)has filed any charge, or has instituted or caused to be instituted any proceeding, under or related to this subchapter;
(2)has given, or is about to give, any information in connection with any inquiry or proceeding relating to any right provided under this subchapter; or
(3)has testified, or is about to testify, in any inquiry or proceeding relating to any right provided under this subchapter.

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Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Section effective 6 months after Feb. 5, 1993, except that, in the case of collective bargaining agreements in effect on that

Effective Date

, section applicable on the earlier of (1) the date of termination of such agreement, or (2) the date that occurs 12 months after Feb. 5, 1993, see section 405(b) of Pub. L. 103–3, set out as a note under section 2601 of this title.

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Citation

29 U.S.C. § 2615

Title 29Labor

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60