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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>363455</law_id><section_number>40.1-51.4:5</section_number><catch_line>Immunity of employees for reporting threatening conduct</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2026/" slug="2026" current="TRUE" last_updated="2026-08-02">2026</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="89" identifier="40.1">Labor and Employment</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="3" identifier="3">Protection of Employees</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="6" identifier="5">Safety Provisions</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> Any <span class="dictionary">employee</span> who, in good faith with reasonable cause and without <span class="dictionary">malice</span>, truthfully reports <span class="dictionary">threatening conduct</span> by a person employed at the same workplace shall be immune from all civil liability that might otherwise be incurred or imposed as the result of making such a report. <a id="paragraph-1354488" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/40.1-51.4_5/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> As used in subsection A, &#x201C;<span class="dictionary">threatening conduct</span>&#x201D; means any conduct that would place a person in reasonable apprehension of death or bodily injury. <a id="paragraph-1354489" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/40.1-51.4_5/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C"><p><span class="prefix-number">C.</span> The immunity provided by this section shall not abrogate any other immunity that an <span class="dictionary">employee</span> may be entitled to assert. <a id="paragraph-1354490" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/40.1-51.4_5/#C"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>2002, c. 537.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
