BACK OFF! is a remarkably useful and engaging survival guide that can help millions of targets, bystanders, and bullies that want to change their vile ways. I was especially impressed with the practical and powerful guidelines for battling against bullies without becoming one yourself. – Robert Sutton, Author of No Asshole Rule and Good Boss, Bad Boss Continue reading
For years advocates for the Healthy Workplace Bill have remained loyal to their legislative template and argued that options like Ontario’s Bill 168 aren’t adequate to address workplace bullying. They also prefer an approach that discourages large lawsuits. Looks like it’s time for legislators to take another look at alternative approaches — enforcement of Bill 168 may have fallen short — but large lawsuits equal change: Continue reading
Below is a great article from Patricia Barnes, author of SURVIVING BULLIES, QUEEN BEES AND PSYCHOPATHS IN THE WORKPLACE. She is also one of the people who created the Care2 petition asking for a national answers — please help bring attention to this petition! Sign it and pass it on http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/protect-us-workers/ :
Federal Agencies Urged to Address Workplace Bullying
When an incident of assault, harassment, intimidation, or bullying occurs in a federal workplace, it is usually caused by an employee rather than a customer, criminal, or someone who has a personal relationship with the victim. Continue reading
It’s important to dispel myths about workplace bullying. One of these myths is that you have NO recourse here in the U.S. The truth is that there are some protections in place that might come into play but they are often hodge podge and extremely difficult to win. Which brings home the need to ignore the self-interest of well-meaning advocates and instead rely on individualized advice from an actual employment attorney to see what recourse, if any, applies to your situation. The EEOC has noted that the majority of cases that fall under harassment protections – or outside as they do in many workplace bullying situations – are often won on retaliation claims. Here’s a Connecticut case that is making it’s way through the courts and represents a variety of today’s labor issues; forming a union, whistleblowing, retaliation and bullying. It also shows the difference in how individual states interpret Federal law such as, in this case, free speech. It’s frightening to think of the number of government regulations meant to protect our lands that are ignored because an employee would be fired for speaking up about their managers actions to their superiors. That’s the claim in Ozols vs. Town of Madison — read it for yourself below. Continue reading
The Office was expected to include a scene highlighting workplace bullying in this season’s season opener. Humor takes broad liberties but this topic didn’t need to enter mainstream television as a trivial joke — far too many of us have suffered the humiliating physical and financial ramifications. But, maybe I shouldn’t be so quick to judge. The deleted clip was dead on in depicting what far too many trainers and experts have fed to the media — the concept that bullying is “intentional” (check out the text on the blackboard). As the dialog and interactions of the cast members show, bullies are often clueless to their actions and the impact of their actions. Here’s the scene – judge for yourself: Continue reading
Please check out this infographic courtesy of Compliance and Safety: Continue reading
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