Employer's right to a workplace protection restraining order

An employer may seek a workplace protection restraining order to prohibit further violence or threats of violence by the respondent if: (1) an employee has suffered unlawful violence and the respondent has made a credible threat of violence to be carried out at the employee's workplace; (2) an employee believes that the respondent has made a credible threat of violence to be carried out at the employee's workplace; or (3) an unlawful act of violence has been carried out at the workplace or the respondent has made a credible threat of violence at the workplace. (Source: P.A. 98-430, eff. 1-1-14; 98-766, eff. 7-16-14.)