Illinois Compiled Statutes 820 Employment: Article -

• Illinois Workplace Violence Prevention Act. - 820 ILCS 275, Section 1
  Short title. This Act may be cited as the Workplace Violence Prevention Act. (Source: P.A. 98-430, eff. 1-1-14.)
• Illinois Workplace Violence Prevention Act. - 820 ILCS 275, Section 5
  Purpose. This Act is intended to assist employers in protecting its workforce, customers, guests and property by limiting access to workplace venues by potentially violent...
• Illinois Workplace Violence Prevention Act. - 820 ILCS 275, Section 10
  Definitions. As used in this Act: "Credible threat of violence" means a statement or course of conduct that causes a reasonable person to fear for...
• Illinois Workplace Violence Prevention Act. - 820 ILCS 275, Section 15
  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...
• Illinois Workplace Violence Prevention Act. - 820 ILCS 275, Section 20
  Affidavit. An employer may obtain a workplace protection restraining order if the employer files an affidavit that shows by a preponderance of the evidence that:...
• Illinois Workplace Violence Prevention Act. - 820 ILCS 275, Section 21
  Employee notification. (a) In cases in which an employer is seeking a workplace protection restraining order involving an employee who is a victim of unlawful...
• Illinois Workplace Violence Prevention Act. - 820 ILCS 275, Section 25
  Remedies. Employer remedies under this Act are limited to a workplace protection restraining order. Nothing in this Act, however, waives, reduces, or diminishes any other...
• Illinois Workplace Violence Prevention Act. - 820 ILCS 275, Section 30
  Action for workplace protection restraining order. (a) An action for a workplace protection restraining order may be commenced independently by filing a petition for a...
• Illinois Workplace Violence Prevention Act. - 820 ILCS 275, Section 35
  Subject matter jurisdiction. Each of the circuit courts of this State has the power to issue workplace protection restraining orders. (Source: P.A. 98-430, eff. 1-1-14;...
• Illinois Workplace Violence Prevention Act. - 820 ILCS 275, Section 40
  Jurisdiction over persons. The courts of this State have jurisdiction to bind: (1) State residents; and (2) non-residents having minimum contacts with this State to...
• Illinois Workplace Violence Prevention Act. - 820 ILCS 275, Section 45
  Venue. A petition for a workplace protection restraining order may be filed in any county where: (i) the petitioner resides; (ii) the respondent resides; or...
• Illinois Workplace Violence Prevention Act. - 820 ILCS 275, Section 50
  Process. (a) Any action for a workplace protection restraining order requires that a separate summons be issued and served. The summons shall require the respondent...
• Illinois Workplace Violence Prevention Act. - 820 ILCS 275, Section 55
  Hearing notice. Except as otherwise provided by law or court rule, notice of hearings on petitions or motions shall be served upon the respondent in...
• Illinois Workplace Violence Prevention Act. - 820 ILCS 275, Section 60
  Hearings. The court shall treat a petition for a workplace protection restraining order as an expedited proceeding and may not transfer or otherwise decline to...
• Illinois Workplace Violence Prevention Act. - 820 ILCS 275, Section 65
  Continuances. (a) A petition for an emergency workplace protection restraining order shall be granted or denied in accordance with the standards of Section 70 of...
• Illinois Workplace Violence Prevention Act. - 820 ILCS 275, Section 70
  Emergency order. (a) The court shall issue an emergency workplace protection restraining order if the petitioner establishes that: (1) the court has jurisdiction under Section...
• Illinois Workplace Violence Prevention Act. - 820 ILCS 275, Section 75
  Plenary order. The court shall issue a plenary workplace protection restraining order if the petitioner has served notice of the hearing for that order on...
• Illinois Workplace Violence Prevention Act. - 820 ILCS 275, Section 80
  Employee testimony. In a plenary workplace protection restraining order hearing, if the court finds that testimony in the courtroom voluntarily offered by the employee who...
• Illinois Workplace Violence Prevention Act. - 820 ILCS 275, Section 85
  Duration and extension of orders. (a) Unless reopened or extended or voided by entry of an order of greater duration, an emergency order is effective...
• Illinois Workplace Violence Prevention Act. - 820 ILCS 275, Section 90
  Contents of orders. (a) A workplace protection restraining order shall describe each remedy granted by the court, in reasonable detail and not by reference to...
• Illinois Workplace Violence Prevention Act. - 820 ILCS 275, Section 95
  Notice of orders. (a) Upon issuance of a workplace protection restraining order, the clerk shall immediately, or on the next court day if an emergency...
• Illinois Workplace Violence Prevention Act. - 820 ILCS 275, Section 100
  Modification. (a) Except as otherwise provided in this Section, upon motion of the petitioner, the court may modify an emergency or plenary workplace protection restraining...
• Illinois Workplace Violence Prevention Act. - 820 ILCS 275, Section 105
  Enforcement. The court may enforce workplace protection restraining orders through civil contempt proceedings. (Source: P.A. 98-766, eff. 7-16-14.)
• Illinois Workplace Violence Prevention Act. - 820 ILCS 275, Section 110
  Employment discrimination. An employer seeking or obtaining a workplace protection restraining order shall comply with any federal or State law to which it is subject,...
• Illinois Workplace Violence Prevention Act. - 820 ILCS 275, Section 115
  Effect on other laws and employment benefits. (a) Nothing in this Act shall be construed to supersede any provision of any federal, State, or local...
• Illinois Workplace Violence Prevention Act. - 820 ILCS 275, Section 120
  Exemptions. (a) The court may not enter a workplace protection restraining order that enjoins the following activities: (1) lawful monitoring of compliance with public or...
• Illinois Workplace Violence Prevention Act. - 820 ILCS 275, Section 125
  Confidentiality and privacy. The employer shall keep all information relating to a workplace protection restraining order in the strictest confidence, limiting information only to those...
• Illinois Workplace Violence Prevention Act. - 820 ILCS 275, Section 130
  Exemption. (a) This Act does not apply to any individual or organization that is lawfully (i) monitoring for compliance with public or worker safety laws,...

Last modified: February 18, 2015