An employer or an agent of an employer shall not discharge from employment a person who is placed in isolation or quarantine pursuant to the provisions of the Public Health Emergency Response Act. History: Laws 2003, ch. 218, § 16. ANNOTATIONSEmergency clauses. — Laws 2003, ch. 218, § 21 contained an emergency clause and was approved April 6, 2003. Compiler's notes. — This section was enacted by the legislature as part of Chapter 12, Article 10 NMSA 1978, but it was assigned to Article 10A by the compiler to separate it from the State Civil Emergency Preparedness Act.
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