Section 8-318 - Discharging, fining, suspending, expelling, disciplining, or discriminating against plan participant or beneficiary. - Maryland Statutes

§ 8-318. Discharging, fining, suspending, expelling, disciplining, or discriminating against plan participant or beneficiary.
 

(a)  In general.- A person may not discharge, fine, suspend, expel, discipline, or discriminate against a plan participant or beneficiary: 

(1) for exercising a right to which the participant or beneficiary is entitled under this subtitle; or 

(2) for the purpose of interfering with a right to which the participant or beneficiary may become entitled under this subtitle. 

(b)  Involvement in inquiry or proceedings.- A person may not discharge, fine, suspend, expel, discipline, or discriminate against a person, whether or not the person is a plan participant or beneficiary, because the person: 

(1) has given information or testified in an inquiry or proceeding that relates to this subtitle; or 

(2) is about to give information or testify in an inquiry or proceeding that relates to this subtitle. 

(c)  Interference with or prevention of exercise of rights.- A person may not, by fraud, force, violence, or the threat of force or violence, restrain, coerce, or intimidate or attempt to restrain, coerce, or intimidate a plan participant or beneficiary for the purpose of interfering with or preventing the exercise of a right to which the plan participant or beneficiary is or may become entitled under this subtitle. 
 

[An. Code 1957, art. 48A, § 691; 1995, ch. 36.]