60-8-1. Intimidation of employees--Misdemeanor.
Any person who by any use of force, threats, or intimidation, prevents or endeavors to prevent any hired foreman, journeyman, workman, laborer, servant, or other person employed by another person from continuing or performing work or from accepting any new work or employment, or induces the hired person to relinquish work or employment, or to return any work the person has in hand before it is finished, is guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor.
Source: PenC 1877, §733; CL 1887, §6924; RPenC 1903, §757; RC 1919, §4373; SDC 1939, §13.1824; SL 1978, ch 359, §2; SL 2008, ch 276, §68.
Structure South Dakota Codified Laws
Title 60 - Labor and Employment
Chapter 08 - Interference With Employment
Section 60-8-1 - Intimidation of employees--Misdemeanor.
Section 60-8-2 - Intimidation of employers--Misdemeanor.
Section 60-8-4 - Agreement denying free exercise of right to work as misdemeanor.
Section 60-8-6 - Coercion of employee to join labor organization--Misdemeanor.
Section 60-8-8 - Violation of right to work law--Investigations by state's attorney--Prosecutions.