TITLE 45 PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES

Section 19. Labor Practices, 45-19-1 through 45-19-46.

ARTICLE 2 FAIR EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES

45-19-45. Unlawful conspiracies.

It shall be an unlawful practice for a person or for two or more persons to conspire:

1. To retaliate or discriminate in any manner against a person because the person has opposed a practice declared unlawful by this article or because the person has made a charge, filed a complaint, testified, assisted, or participated in any manner in any investigation, proceeding, or hearing concerning an unlawful practice under this article;
2. To aid, abet, incite, compel, or coerce a person to engage in any of the acts or practices declared unlawful by this article;
3. To obstruct or prevent a person from complying with this article or any order issued under this article;
4. To resist, prevent, impede, or interfere with the administrator or any of his employees or a special master in the lawful performance of duty under this article; provided, however, that it shall not be a violation of this article for anyone to challenge or resist any action by the administrator or any of his employees or a special master when there is a good faith belief that the administrator or his employees or a special master is acting unlawfully or acting in excess of his statutory authority; or
5. To initiate willfully frivolous and unwarranted charges of discrimination against a public employer.

(Ga. L. 1978, p. 859, § 20; Ga. L. 1983, p. 1097, § 1; Ga. L. 1984, p. 22, § 45.)