475.115 - Volunteer firefighters: Disclosure to employer; discharge from employment prohibited; civil action; attorney’s fees.
475.115 Volunteer firefighters: Disclosure to employer; discharge from employment prohibited; civil action; attorney’s fees.
1. Any person, corporation, partnership, association or other entity who is an employer or is vested with the power to discharge or recommend the discharge of a person who serves as a volunteer firefighter shall not deprive the person performing such service of his or her employment as a consequence of his or her action.
2. A person discharged 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 lost wages and benefits; and
(d) Reasonable attorney’s fees fixed by the court.
3. Any applicant for employment who is, and any employee who becomes, a volunteer firefighter must disclose that fact to his or her prospective or present employer, as the case may be.
(Added to NRS by 1983, 919; A 2005, 337)