Workplace Protections

For the purpose of this law, domestic violence is defined as:

• physical abuse;
• harassment;
• intimidation of a dependent;
• interference with personal liberty; or
• willful deprivation.¹

For the purpose of this law, sexual violence is defined as any act described in any of the following crimes:

• all of the crimes listed in Article 11 of the Illinois Criminal Code except Sections 11–35 and 11–45;
• criminal sexual assault;
• aggravated criminal sexual assault;
• predatory criminal sexual assault of a child;
• criminal sexual abuse; or
• aggravated criminal sexual abuse.²

For the purpose of this law, gender violence is defined as any of the following:

• a criminal act that is committed, at least in part, on the basis of a person’s actual or perceived sex or gender;
• a criminal act that involves a physical intrusion/invasion of a sexual nature under “coercive conditions;” or
• a threat to commit one of the acts described above, which causes the victim to realistically fear that the act will be committed.³

For the purpose of this law, “crime of violence” is defined as any act described in the following sections of the Illinois Criminal Code:

• Article 9 (homicide);
• Article 11 (sex offenses);
• Article 12 (bodily harm);
• Article 26.5 (harassing and obscene communications);
• Article 29D (terrorism); and
• Article 33A (armed violence).⁴

Note: It doesn’t matter whether the abuser was ever arrested or prosecuted for committing any of the above criminal acts or not.

^​1 820 ILCS 180/10(6); 60/103(1)
^​2 820 ILCS 180/10(5), (20), (20.5)^​
3 820 ILCS 180/10(5), (12.5)
⁴ 820 ILCS 180/10(2.5)