I work for the University of California. On May 25...

2006-07-23T18:55:00.000-07:00

I work for the University of California. On May 25th, a fellow employee started an argument with me and ended up yellilng at me and shaking his fist in my face. I was sitting in a chair and the door was on the opposite of the room so it was difficult to extract myself from this situation.

When I was able to leave the room I did so and called a supervisor and told him what had happened. I told him I was going home and mentioned filing a workmen's claim for the wages lost. The following day I spoke with a Santa Cruz Sheriff who told me the situtation was actually a case of workplace violence and I should follow up with the supervisor on that issue.

The coordinator of my program (if you can believe it I am a Community Safety Officer) has yet to do anything. The universioty has protocols for handling workplace violence but nobody has contacted me. They are now talking about making me work with the employee again and I am definately concerned.

The University policies a dn procedures are found at: http://shr.ucsc.edu/campuswide-announce-pol-prog/violence-in-workplace/introduction.htm

I assume there are state laws abougt handling these issues and would like both advice and where to find the state laws.

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I work for the University of California. On May 25...