40.1-51.4:5 - Immunity of employees for reporting threatening conduct - Virginia Statutes

§ 40.1-51.4:5. Immunity of employees for reporting threatening conduct.

A. Any employee who, in good faith with reasonable cause and without malice,truthfully reports threatening conduct by a person employed at the sameworkplace shall be immune from all civil liability that might otherwise beincurred or imposed as the result of making such a report.

B. As used in subsection A, "threatening conduct" means any conduct thatwould place a person in reasonable apprehension of death or bodily injury.

C. The immunity provided by this section shall not abrogate any otherimmunity that an employee may be entitled to assert.

(2002, c. 537.)