1. 1. Any person, corporation, partnership, association or other entity who is:

   1. (a) An employer; or

   2. (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. 2. A person discharged from employment in violation of subsection 1 may commence a civil action against his or her employer and obtain:

   1. (a) Wages and benefits lost as a result of the violation;
   2. (b) An order of reinstatement without loss of position, seniority or benefits;
   3. (c) Damages equal to the amount of the lost wages and benefits; and
   4. (d) Reasonable attorney’s fees fixed by the court.

(Added to NRS by 1981, 366; A 1995, 209)