What is a Workplace Violence Restraining Order (WVRO)?
A workplace violence restraining order (WVRO) allows an employer to obtain court orders prohibiting unlawful violence or credible threats of violence against an employee. WVROs must be requested by the employer of a person who is the target of the violence.*1 An employer may seek protection under this law if: • An employee has experience unlawful violence or a credible threat of violence from any person; • The violence or credible threat of violence occurred at the workplace or can reasonably be construed to be carried out in the workplace; • The defendant’s conduct is not part of a labor dispute; AND • The defendant is not engaged in constitutionally protected activity. *2 A workplace violence restraining order can protect an employee from the following patterns of conduct: • Following or stalking an employee to or from the employee’s place of work. • Entering the employee’s place of work. • Following an employee during the employee’s hours of employment. • Making telephone calls to a
