Workplace Violence Prevention Act

The Workplace Violence Prevention Act allows an employer to seek a court order restraining someone from approaching or contacting an employee at the workplace, providing a civil remedy against threats or violence directed at people while they are at work. It sets out how such a proceeding is brought and heard — jurisdiction, venue, service of process, notice, hearings and continuances — and authorizes both emergency orders issued on an expedited basis and longer-term orders after a full hearing, with rules on their contents, duration, extension, modification, and notice. The act also protects employees who are the subject of or testify in these proceedings by barring related employment discrimination, limiting the effect on other laws and benefits, and imposing confidentiality requirements, subject to specified exemptions and enforcement provisions.

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