Any person who by any use of force, threats, or intimidation, prevents or endeavors to prevent any hired foreman, journeyman, workman, laborer, servant, or other person employed by another person from continuing or performing work or from accepting any new work or employment, or induces the hired person to relinquish work or employment, or to return any work the person has in hand before it is finished, is guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor.
S.D. Codified Laws § 60-8-1
Intimidation of employees--Misdemeanor
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case Mathews v. Twin City Construction Co. (1984)
Most recently applied in Mathews v. Twin City Construction Co. (October 1984)
Source: PenC 1877, § 733; CL 1887, § 6924; RPenC 1903, § 757; RC 1919, § 4373; SDC 1939, § 13.1824; SL 1978, ch 359, § 2; SL 2008, ch 276, § 68.
Official source: South Dakota Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Dakota statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.