Lucas

DISCUSSION

A. The Workplace Violence Safety Act Section 527.6 authorizes a person who has suffered harassment to obtain an injunction to prevent further harassment. Section 527.8, subdivision (a) provides the same right to an employer: “Any employer, whose employee has suffered unlawful violence or a credible threat of violence from

3 any individual, that can reasonably be construed to be carried out or to have been carried out at the workplace, may seek a temporary restraining order and an order after hearing on behalf of the employee and, at the discretion of the court, any number of other employees at the workplace, and, if appropriate, other employees at other workplaces of the employer.” “[I]njunctive proceedings under section 527.8 are intended to parallel those under section 527.6, which are procedurally truncated, expedited, and intended to provide quick relief to victims of civil harassment.” (Kaiser Foundation Hospitals v. Wilson (2011) 201 Cal.App.4th 550, 557; Scripps Health v. Marin (1999) 72 Cal.App.4th 324, 333 (Scripps); see also USS-Posco Industries v. Edwards (2003) 111 Cal.App.4th 436, 443 [Section 527.8 “address[es] the growing phenomenon in California of…