; and (2) by adding at the end the following: (d) Meat and poultry establishments (1) Definitions In this subsection: (A) Complainant The term complainant means a complainant who is a covered employee. (B) Covered employee The term covered employee means an employee of a covered employer. (C) Covered employer The term covered employer means an employer that is a covered establishment, as defined in section 3 of the Protecting America's Meatpacking Workers Act . (D) Respondent The term respondent means a respondent who is a covered employer. (2) Reasonable apprehension (A) In general No person shall discharge, or cause to be discharged, or in any other manner retaliate or discriminate against, or cause to be retaliated or discriminated against, a covered employee for refusing to perform the covered employee’s duties if the covered employee has a reasonable apprehension that performing such duties would result in serious injury to, or serious impairment of the health of, the covered employee or other covered employees. (B) Circumstances For purposes of subparagraph (A), the circumstances causing the covered employee’s reasonable apprehension described in such subparagraph shall be of such a nature that a reasonable person, under the circumstances confronting the covered employee, would conclude that performing the duties described in such subparagraph would have the result described in such subparagraph. (C) Communication In order to qualify for protection under this paragraph, the covered employee, when practicable, shall have communicated or attempted to communicate the safety or health concern to the covered employer and have not received from the covered employer a response reasonably calculated to allay such concern. (3) Complaint Any covered employee who believes that the covered employee has been discharged, disciplined, or otherwise retaliated or discriminated against by any person in violation of subsection (c)(1) or paragraph (2) of this subsection may seek relief for such violation by filing a complaint