WORKPLACE VIOLENCE PREVENTION/MASS PICKETING.

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View NCGA Bill Details(link is external)2025-2026 Session
Senate Bill 484 (Public) Filed Tuesday, March 25, 2025
AN ACT AMENDING WORKPLACE VIOLENCE PREVENTION LAWS TO COVER MASS PICKETING.
Intro. by Moffitt, Daniel, Britt.

Status: Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate (Senate action) (Mar 26 2025)
S 484

Bill Summaries:

  • Summary date: Mar 25 2025 - View Summary

    Makes changes throughout GS Chapter 95, Article 23 (Workplace Violence Prevention) to include employers, along with the existing references to employees, as parties who may seek a civil no-contact order under the Article. Includes mass picketing, obstructing or interfering with the entry to a place of employment, and obstructing or interfering with roads, streets, and other ways of travel to the types of unlawful conduct justifying a civil no-contact order.

    Amends GS 95-260 (Definitions) to include Mass picketing and Place of employment as defined terms for GS Chapter 95, Article 23. Amends the definition of Unlawful conduct to include new subdivisions d., e., and f., which include mass picketing, obstructing the entry to a place of employment, and obstructing roads, streets, and other ways of travel.

    Amends GS 95-261 (Civil no-contact orders; persons protected), GS 95-264 (Civil no-contact order; remedy), and GS 95-266 (Permanent civil no-contact order), to include references to employer or in addition to the existing references to employees and to replace employee’s workplace with place of employment.

    Amends GS 95-262 (Commencement of action; venue) to specify that actions for civil no-contact orders must be initiated in the county where the unlawful conduct occurred, removing any civil district court.

    Amends GS 95-271 to add new subsection (b), which states that nothing in the Article is intended to infringe on United States or North Carolina constitutional rights, and new subsection (c), which is a severability clause.

    Applicable to any acts or omissions occurring on or after the date it becomes law.