Posts Tagged ‘Healthy Workplace Bill’
Workplace Bullying Still Rampant in U.S.
Monday, August 30th, 2010
In August, 2010 the Workplace Bullying Institute (WBI) commissioned Zogby International to conduct a survey of adult Americans. The results showed that workplace bullying is still a problem for 53 million Americans. In the scientific, national poll, 34.4% of Americans report personally being bullied. By including those who only witness it, 49% of the population is aware of bullying at work, while 51% say that have neither experienced nor seen it.
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Tags: Healthy Workplace Bill, WBI-Zogby, workplace bullying
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Workplace bullying experts coming to No. Cal. during Freedom Week
Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
Celebrate with us!
To help celebrate Freedom Week 2010 in Northern California, spend
An Evening with Ruth and Gary Namie
Tuesday October 19, South San Francisco – Grosvenor Best Western Hotel
Wednesday October 20, Sacramento — Radisson Sacramento
Each night the doors open at 6 pm.
The Drs. Namie will lead a seminar from 7 to 9 pm covering.
• Updates on the newest science related to bullying
• Status of the workplace bullying movement begun in Benicia in ’97
• Employer responses to bullying
• Status of the law in various states
Afterwards, members of California Healthy Workplace Advocates (CHWA) will be present to describe the 2011 campaign to enact the anti-bullying Healthy Workplace Bill.
S. San Francisco hotel location: 380 S. Airport Blvd., SSF
Sacramento hotel location: 500 Leisure Lane, Sacramento
Tags: California Healthy Workplace Advocates, CHWA, Gary Namie, Healthy Workplace Bill, Ruth Namie, workplace bullying
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Healthy Workplace Bill described on CNN
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
On July 26, Adam Cohen, Yale Law School lecturer and author of the Time magazine article about our bill, appeared on CNN American Morning show. He accurately described the Healthy Workplace Bill and discussed implications for employers without fear-mongering or hyperbole. Thank you, Adam, for reading the text of the bill and communicating your understanding.
Tags: Adam Cohen, Healthy Workplace Bill, Yale Law
Posted in Bullying in the News, WBI Legislative Campaign | 4 Comments »
HWB author Yamada on MSNBC
Friday, July 23rd, 2010
David Yamada, Suffolk Univ. Law Professor and author of the anti-bullying legislation for the U.S. — the Healthy Workplace Bill, appeared on MSNBC at 12:50 pm July 23. He distinguished clearly routine rudeness from malicious bullying that carries health-harming consequences. You can download Prof. Yamada’s publications from a link in the WBI Research Library and visit his blog for the New Workplace Institute.
Note the correct spelling of his name Yamada, not Yamata.
Tags: David Yamada, Healthy Workplace Bill, MSNBC, New York Senate
Posted in Bullying in the News, Media, WBI Legislative Campaign | 3 Comments »
WBI Healthy Workplace Bills target workplace bullying
Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
“New laws target workplace bullying” by Adam Cohen, Time magazine, July 21, 2010
There are some very important things they don’t tell you on career day. Chief among them is that there is a good chance that at some point during your working adult life you will have an abusive boss — the kind who uses his or her authority to torment subordinates. Bullying bosses scream, often with the goal of humiliating. They write up false evaluations to put good workers’ jobs at risk. Some are serial bullies, targeting one worker and, when he or she is gone, moving on to their next victim.
Tags: Healthy Workplace Bill, NY Senate, Time magazine, WBI-Zogby
Posted in Bullying in the News, Media | 15 Comments »
Do we need a workplace bullying law?
Saturday, July 17th, 2010
Check your local Sunday newspaper Parade magazine on July 18 for brief mention of the Healthy Workplace Bill legislative campaign. But go online to this page and vote now
UPDATE: As of Thurs. July 22, 93% of those who voted want a law! To elected state & federal legislators: if you are looking for a “populist” thing to do to help your beleaguered constituents, turn your back on SHRM and the Chamber of Commerce and do something for the “small people” (aka, the real persons, not Supreme Court “persons,” the corporations.)
For those new to the Workplace Bullying Institute, visit our Healthy Workplace Bill Legislative Campaign website to see the history of the anti-bullying bill movement led by State Coordinators and citizen lobbyists just like you. Sign up to help in your state.
Tags: Gary Namie, Healthy Workplace Bill, Parade, Workplace Bullying Institute
Posted in Bullying in the News, Media | 16 Comments »
SHRM opposes anti-bullying Healthy Workplace Bill
Friday, June 18th, 2010
SHRM, the HR industry advocacy group has gone on record opposing the cessation of abusive conduct in the American workplace. HR boldy stands for abuse and embarrasses the many well-intentioned practitioners who thought their job was “helping people.” Read the details.
Tags: Healthy Workplace Bill, HR, SHRM
Posted in Announcements, Employer Action/Inaction, WBI Legislative Campaign | 2 Comments »
New York Healthy Workplace Bill must wait for 2011
Wednesday, June 9th, 2010
Read the story of the bill’s fate at the end of the 209-10 legislative session in the New York State Legislature.
Tags: A05414B, Healthy Workplace Bill, NY Assembly Labor Committee, NYHWA, S1823B, Susan John
Posted in WBI Legislative Campaign | 3 Comments »
Advocates discuss the Healthy Workplace Bill
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010
Read the May 25, 2010 Rochester Democrat and Chronicle article
Advocates discuss the Healthy Workplace Bill by Mike Schlicht & Tom Witt (NYHWA Coordinators)
Tags: Healthy Workplace Bill, NY, NYHWA, S 1823B
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NY Post: Bully pulpit: Work harass bill wins round, but fight goes on
Monday, May 24th, 2010
Read the May 24, 2010 New York Post article
Bully Pulpit: Work harass bill wins round, but fight goes on by Chris Erikson
WBI counters the distortions
In the Erikson (Post) article: Our NY State Coordinator Mike Schlicht has it right about how many New Yorkers are bullied (relying on the national prevalence rate), but Nobile, the corporate attorney, implies that all 1.8 million will file a lawsuit. This is nonsense. Sexual harassment is illegal, but only a miniscule proportion (about 1% who suffer it) ever file a lawsuit. The hurdle for filing a suit under the Healthy Workplace Bill is high. Frivolous complaints will be filed only by the hopping mad, super wealthy workers. Do you know any? The second ungrounded opinion comes from the Business Council rep, Moran, who threatens that businesses would flee NY if employers are not allowed to abuse workers with impunity. Large employers already export jobs in search of cheap labor for no reasons related to their employees except that they are American and entitled to (a disgracefully low) minimum wage. Companies are in NY for a reason — education at great universities, skilled workers, family ties to the region, they are American. Bill S 1823B does not change those reasons. We have the same bill proposed in MA, NJ, VT and soon every state that borders NY. Where are they going to go? Americans also comprise the labor pool in those states. And NJ is more pro-worker than NY!
Tags: Healthy Workplace Bill, NY Post
Posted in Bullying in the News, WBI Legislative Campaign | 1 Comment »
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