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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.

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