1. Any person, corporation, partnership, association or other entity who is: (a) An employer; or (b) The employee, agent or officer of an employer, vested with the power to terminate or recommend termination of employment, of a person who is a witness or who has received a summons to appear as a witness in a judicial or administrative proceeding, who deprives the witness or person summoned of his or her employment, as a consequence of his or her service as a witness or prospective witness, or who asserts to the witness or person summoned that his or her service as a witness or prospective witness will result in termination of his or her employment, is guilty of a misdemeanor. 2. A person discharged from employment in violation of subsection 1 may commence a civil action against his or her employer and obtain: (a) Wages and benefits lost as a result of the violation; (b) An order of reinstatement without loss of position, seniority or benefits; (c) Damages equal to the amount of the lost wages and benefits; and (d) Reasonable attorney’s fees fixed by the court. (Added to NRS by 1981, 366; A 1995, 209)
Nevada Legal Code