Posts Tagged ‘UK’
Remember, Bullying goes up the work ladder
Monday, June 28th, 2010
Another instance of woman-on-woman bullying in the UK, in a law firm (not unusual), where junior lawyer Pearl mounted a campaign against managing attorney Caroline causing Caroline health problems (also not unusual). Vivia Chen at Law.com, like so many others, seems intrigued by the woman-on-woman aspect and cites our WBI-Zogby 2007 findings.
Read the original article. Tip o’ the hat to Victoria Pynchon.
Tags: lawyers, subordinate bully, UK, woman-on-woman
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UK working days lost to bullies
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
18.9 million working days lost every year because of bullies (in the UK)
Allegations against the PM have brought this issue into sharp focus. Gabrielle Fagan investigates just how prevalent it is in the British workplace. Read the article in the Halifax Evening Courier.
Tags: absenteeism, Gabrielle Fagan, UK
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Shiftwork Destroys Employee Health
Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
A marvelous article by Andrew Watterson in the summer 2009 UK Hazards Magazine reviews some of the newest occupational health research regarding the impact of working night and graveyard shifts (and rotating with dayturn) on employee health. There are increased risks of cancer, cardiovascular disease, accidents, pregnancy problems, clinical depression and divorce. The article describes some of the biology involved.
This British article criticizes their government agency HSE. Know that the U.S. OSHA is even less protective of workers.
How realistic are limits when employers want to offer 24/7 operating hours? Nurses are especially vulnerable because patient care requires 24/7 coverage.
No summary can do justice to this detailed article. Read it in its entirety @ Hazards Magazine..
Tags: Add new tag, Hazards Magazine, NIOSH, occupational health, UK
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How a woman becomes a bully
Sunday, June 7th, 2009
Yet another story with the woman-on-woman bullying angle. However, UK Andrea Adams Trust director Lyn Wetheridge makes the more important point that the recession has increased bullying. Andrea Adams coined the phrase “workplace bullying” in Britain and led the movement until her death. The AA Trust is the forerunner to the American WBI.
How A Woman Becomes a Bully
More employees are suffering at their colleagues’ hands
By Carly Chynoweth and Tariq Tahi
The Sunday Times (London)
June 7, 2009
Tags: Andrea Adams, NY Times, Sunday Times, UK, WBI-Zogby, woman-on-woman
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Helen Green Wins Court Victory – UK
Thursday, May 14th, 2009
British Worker Awarded £800,000 (US$1.5 million) in Bullying Payout
August 2, 2006
A City (London) worker has won £800,000 in damages from Deutsche Bank in a landmark workplace bullying case. The award is said by legal experts to be particularly high and likely to be appealed.
High Court judge Justice Owen said that the campaign at the secretariat division of the international banking firm Deutsche Bank Group Services (UK) Ltd. against Helen Green involved a “relentless campaign of mean and spiteful behaviour designed to cause her distress” that left Green on some occasions crying silently at her desk. She worked there from 1997 to 2001.
Owen awarded her a total of $1.5 million for pain and suffering and loss of past and future earnings. He also ordered the bank to pay her legal costs, beginning with an interim payment of $650,000.
The largest part of the award is the £640,000 awarded for future loss of earnings and a pension, and it is this portion which marks the case out as unusual.
“We have seen cases like this before a number of times but the court has awarded such a large amount because it took the view that this person would not be able to work at this salary level for a long time in the future,” said Tom Potbury, a lawyer specialising in employment law at Pinsent Masons. (more…)
Tags: Deutsche Bank, Green, UK
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