California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from N. Cal. Presbyterian Homes & Servs. v. McInerney, H041335 (Cal. App. 2016):
"Section 527.8, the Workplace Violence Safety Act, enables an employer to seek an injunction to prevent violence or threatened violence against its employees." (City of San Jose v. Garbett (2010) 190 Cal.App.4th 526, 536.) In pertinent part, section 527.8, subdivision (a) provides that "[a]ny employer, whose employee has suffered unlawful violence or a credible threat of violence from any individual, that can reasonably be construed to be carried out or to have been carried out at the workplace, may seek a
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