Restraining Orders

“Workplace violence” is when:

1.    an abuser purposefully causes or threatens to cause physical injury or significant damage to the property of:

• an employer; or
• an employee while the employee is performing work-related duties; and

2.    the abuser’s act or threat would make a reasonable person feel terrorized, frightened, intimidated, or harassed.¹

Note: For a threat of workplace violence, it must be the kind of threat that would make a reasonable person fear it will be carried out.²

¹ UT ST § 78B-7-1101(5)
² UT ST § 78B-7-1101(5)(b)(ii)(A