39-2-303. Deception as to character of employment, conditions of work, or existence of labor dispute prohibited. (1) No one doing business in this state shall induce, influence, persuade, or engage workmen to change from one place to another in this state through or by means of deception, misrepresentation, or false advertising concerning the kind or character of the work, the sanitary or other conditions of employment, or as to the existence of a strike or other trouble pending between the employer and the employees at the time of or immediately prior to such engagement. Failure to state in any advertisement, proposal, or contract for the employment of workmen that there is a strike, lockout, or other labor trouble at the place of the proposed employment when in fact such strike, lockout, or other trouble then actually exists at such place shall be deemed a false advertisement and misrepresentation for the purpose of this section.
     (2) Any workman influenced, induced, persuaded, or engaged through or by means of any of the things prohibited by subsection (1) of this section has a right of action for recovery of all damages that he had sustained in consequence of the deception, misrepresentation, or false advertising used to induce him to change his place of employment against anyone directly or indirectly procuring such change, and in addition thereto, he shall recover reasonable attorneys' fees to be fixed by the court and taxed as costs in any judgment recovered.

     History: En. 41-118 by Sec. 2, Ch. 513, L. 1973; R.C.M. 1947, 41-118.