Employees who protect themselves from attacks in the workplace cannot be fired under the bill passed by the House of Delegates on Friday.
House Bill 5621 says that anyone who is physically attacked by an workplace intruder and responds with proper and proportional force – including possible use of fatal forces – to defend themselves or others cannot be punished or removed for their actions. Bill self -defense is not only being actually being attacked, but also allows for examples of a proper apprehension about being attacked.
Bill was passed by 91–5 and now the kingdom moved to the Senate.
JB Akars
Delegate JB Akars, R-Kanwa explained the bill during today’s house floor session and advocated its passage.
He described the case law of Martinsburg Facilitation Store Clerk, which was at work in 2000 when a woman wore a mask and pointed to a gun and demanded the store’s money. While the employees vacated the cash register, the clerk caught the woman, dismissed her and stopped her until the law enforcement officers arrived.
The clerk was fired for failure to follow a corporate policy, in which workers were stopped from interfering in a store robbery.
“Our Supreme Court admitted that the employee could not be abolished to exercise the right to self-defense, so it has been a general law exception to the AT-Vil principle since at least 2001,” said the ankars. “It continues many times, and now what we have is a general law definition or general law description is what the meaning of self -defense is.
“So what will we do, we will really make laws and codes what it means to exercise your rights for self -defense and to give clarity to employers.”