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Workplace Bullying Bills Alive in the States
Friday, February 26th, 2010
Despite overwhelming state budget crises, the legislative campaign to enact anti-bullying laws for American workplaces rolls on. During this 2010 season, against all odds, the Healthy Workplace Bill (HWB), in various forms, is alive in nine states: Illinois, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont, Oklahoma, Kansas and Utah.
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Tags: anti-bullying law, CT, David Yamada, Healthy Workplace Bill, HWB, IL, KS, MA, NJ, NY, OK, UT, VT, WBI
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Abuse in the medical workplace: Fact vs. myth
Saturday, February 20th, 2010
Workplace Abuse in the Medical Workplace: Fact vs. Myth
By Denise Halverson for Utah Nurse
A physician demands that a prescription be filled despite proof that it has been prescribed from faulty information; an intimidated ER nurse doesn’t dare speak up when a life-threatening condition is overlooked; a surgical team stands knowingly, yet silently by as a surgeon makes a life-threatening error ; despite the plea of a mother, nursing staff refuse to challenge the doctor’s written order resulting in the senseless death of a toddler; a senior nurse refuses to assist a junior nurse as a critically-injured patient slips away. What is the common factor in these, and other similar and actual situations? Workplace bullying. In medical environments, personnel often couch it in more benign language: intimidating and disruptive behavior.
Tags: bullying in medical, Halverson, healthcare workplace abuse, Utah
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Workplace Bullying Bill New Website Launched
Friday, December 4th, 2009
We started the Legislative Campaign to enact the anti-bullying bill in states in 2001. In 2010, we will add to the count the 17th state to introduce some version of the bill thanks to the grassroots network of HWB Coordinators in 27 states and 2 provinces. The new website becomes the single source of info about the legislation for lawmakers, potential sponsors, citizen lobbyist volunteers. and media. Visit
The Healthy Workplace Bill website.
The Drs. Namie, Workplace Bullying Institute
Tags: HWB, WBI Legislative Campaign
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The Current, CBC Radio One on Workplace Bullying
Monday, November 30th, 2009
Nov. 30, 2009 Host Anna Maria Tremonti of The Current on CBC Radio One discusses Workplace Bullying with producer Howard Goldenthal. Guests include Dr. Gary Namie, Workplace Bullying Institute, and Ontario MPP Andrea Horwath, sponsor of Bill 29 and future anti-bullying legislation.
Listen to the show segment at the WBI website or the CBC website.
Tags: Anna Maria Tremonti, CBC, Howard Goldenthal, The Current
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Abuse protection sought for health care workers
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
By Lisa Rosetta, The Salt Lake Tribune, Oct. 22, 2009
Air Med flight nurse Laura Sorensen told her boss in 1993 that she had multiple sclerosis. In hindsight, she believes, she shouldn’t have. (more…)
Tags: Chris Buttars, HB 224, Laura Sorensen, Michelle Swift, Sandstrom
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Laws needed to stop health profession bullying, panel told
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
By James Thalman, Deseret News, Oct. 21, 2009
An epidemic of workplace bullying in hospitals and clinics has gotten so bad it will take legislation to put a stop to it, members of the Legislature’s Health and Human Services Interim committee were told Wednesday.
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Tags: HB 224, Laura Sorensen, Sandstrom, Utah
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Utah Workplace Bullying Bill Hearing
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
The Utah Health and Human Services Interim Committee held a hearing on bill HB 224 (the WBI Healthy Workplace Bill tailored for only the healthcare industry is called the Healthcare Abuse Prevention Act) sponsored by Rep. Sandstrom) on Wed. Oct. 21. Press accounts can be found in the Media list and audio of the hearing can be heard at: the state website.
Tags: HB 224, Sandstrom, Utah
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SLC Public Forum on Workplace Bullying
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
The Public Forum on Workplace Bullying and House Bill 224 Healthcare Abuse Prevention Act was held on Oct. 20 in Salt Lake City the night prior to the public hearing for the bill.
Panel: Bill sponsor Stephen Sandstrom; Utah Nurses Assoc president Nancy Watts; Lauren Scholnick, attorney; G. Namie & D. Halverson, WBI; Sharlene Watson and Laura Sorenson, nurses. From this meeting will come a Utah Healthy Workplace Advocates group. Contact the WBI-LC State Coordinator ut@healthyworkplacebill.org to be connected.
Tags: Ewell, Halverson, HB 224, Sandstrom, Scholnick, Sorenson, Utah, Watson
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Vermont Bill S87 on WGDR
Wednesday, August 12th, 2009
Sherrill Gilbert, WBI-LC VT State Coordinator and Dr. Gary Namie discussed the Vermont Healthy Workplace Bill on the morning show on WGDR-FM, Goddard College
Tags: S 87, Sherrill Gilbert, Vermont, WGDR
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Paid Sick Leave : Healthy Families Act (Federal)
Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
On June 11 in the Workforce Protections Subcommittee of the House Committee on Education and Labor, a hearing will be held for House version of the paid sick leave bill called the Healthy Families Act [In the House, it is HR 2460 (Rep. Rosa DeLauro, CT) and in the Senate it is S 1152 (Sen. Edward Kennedy (MA)]. The modest bill would guarantee 7 paid sick days per year for workers at businesses with 15 or more employees, to be used to recover from routine illness, care for a sick family member, or seek services to recover from domestic violence.
The folks at MomsRising.org want you to sign their petition alerting your U.S. Rep and Senators to support the respective bills. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce will certainly fight this pro-employee health bill. They will claim it interferes with employers’ ability to “compete.”
Read the related report exposing America’s dismal denial of paid sick leave.
Stay tuned.
Tags: Chamber of Commerce, DeLauro, Healthy Families Act, HR2460, Kennedy, MomsRising, occupational health, S1152, sick leave
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