Bully News
Daily Post - Llandudno Junction,UK
Miramichi Leader - Miramichi,New Brunswick,Canada
Women have been very involved in trying to get action on workplace bullying because it is related to the use of violence generally. ...
Boston Globe - Boston,MA,USA
It started with verbal harassment then turned physical. ... Here's some info on workplace bullying: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7599354.stm "Michelle ...
UConn Advance - Storrs,CT,USA
Bullying behavior is a form of uncivil behavior, she says. ... work environment, but repeated behaviors of that nature are a form of workplace violence. ...
OHS Canada - Toronto,ON,Canada
TORONTO (Canadian OH&S News) -- An Ontario nurses' group has issued new guidelines aimed at tackling workplace violence just weeks after a major Toronto ...
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Canada NewsWire (press release) - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
This includes refraining from actions such as gossiping, bullying, harassment, socially isolating others, pushing, throwing things, or any other aggressive ...
EHRC: Disabled people face 'culture of low expectation' at work
Communitycare.co.uk - Sutton,UK
The Equality and Human Rights Commission has revealed that disabled people and those with long-term conditions face higher levels of workplace hostility ...
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Behind Closed Doors: What the Victim of Workplace Bullying Brings Home |
Bullying has moved from schoolyard to the workplace, experts at ...
Indianapolis Star - United States
Children ages 10 to 17 who said they were harassed online grew 50 percent from 2000 to 2005. In 2006, Carmel High School used its harassment and bullying ...
Odd man out is recipe for a toxic office
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
It's estimated that anywhere from 10 to 40 per cent of workers have suffered some form of psychological harassment or abuse in the workplace, says French, ...
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Stamping out violence at work |
Workplace Conflict Resolution Strategies: Introducing ProActive ...
MarketWatch - USA
... to which workplace conflict exists, that same UK study found that 52% of those surveyed had experienced workplace harassment; 27% had been bullied; ...
Blowing the siren
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
Picone believes that bullying and harassment are "in pockets rather than widespread". Bullying and harassment are compounded by workplace and operational ...
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Economic Stress Equals Bullying at Work |
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Bullying: European network online |
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School's lesson in foul language goes too far, parents say |
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Bullying leaves deep scars
Canadian HR Reporter - Scarborough,Ontario,Canada
By Shannon Klie Workplace bullying can be insidious and its targets often blame themselves for the treatment. One woman, who worked for a transportation ...
Ministry of Labour examines protections against violence
OHS Canada - Toronto,ON,Canada
Chris Hinkle, owner of Firm Foundations, a workplace bullying and violence consulting firm in Barrie, Ontario, argues that bullying may cause absenteeism, ...
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Finland Leads Europe in Workplace Bullying |
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette - Fort Wayne,IN,USA
Here'sa long-term plan to root it out at your workplace: � Create an explicit anti-bullying policy that forbids all forms of harassment and destructive ...
Extracts from the public and OH literature
PersonnelToday.com - UK
Additionally, 26% of staff reported harassment, bullying and abuse by patients or relatives, and 2% from another staff member. ...
Prevent Future Massacres By Curbing Bullying
Scoop.co.nz - New Zealand
McCullough believes teachers and school guidance counselors need to warn pupils against bullying and workplace supervisors need to create an atmosphere ...
Bullying is a NB workplace health issue
Times and Transcript - Moncton,New Brunswick,Canada
The costs of bullying, sexual harassment and physical violence at work -- medical costs, benefits and welfare related to premature retirement and loss of ...
Absent Sisterhood
Financial Post - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Workplace bullying has been described as a silent epidemic, a form of psychological violence that falls through the cracks in the checks and balances put in ...
Workplace Bullying: Overblown or Overlooked?
My Global Career - Lafayette,CA,USA
Bullies embody these two popular tactics. Hostility is more normative than the exception. So, bullying/abuse/psychological violence at work is positively ...
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
In the past two years, 12 have enacted legislation to include cyber-bullying. California's Education Code mandates protection for students from harassment ...
Etiquette in the workplace: Don't forget your manners!
Daily Comet - Thibodaux,LA,USA
In the workplace, incivility can become downright harassment. Now, I'm not talking about sexual harassment, racial discrimination or workplace violence ...
FOR SUCCESS
Investor's Business Daily (subscription) - USA
Though workplace homicides are the fourth leading cause of workplace death, incidents of threats, assault, sexual harassment, stalking and bullying are more ...
Hindu - Chennai,India
Workplace violence has a broad spectrum. From prejudice, discrimination, bullying, domination and oppression, to acts in which a person is abused, ...
Cultural change part of stopping the bullies
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
To make things more complex, harassment and violence is often involved. Harassment can be a single instance of offensive or humiliating behaviour, ...
9NEWS.com - Denver,CO,USA
"Management is constantly harassing, intimidating, finger pointing, and bullying letter carriers on the workroom floor on a daily basis. ...
Community services workers affected by workplace violence
National Union of Public and General Employees - Nepean,Ontario,Canada
Staffing issues (understaffing, inadequate funding and heavy workloads) are contributing factors to the violence, bullying and harassment. ...
Hate crimes: one in five gay people suffer homophobic attacks
guardian.co.uk - UK
Other recommendations included stronger action against homophobic bullying in schools and a zero-tolerance policy against bullying in the workplace. ...
The Canadian Press - OTTAWA
Coming nine years after an Ottawa Transpo employee shot and killed four co-workers, the measures also require all incidents of workplace violence to be ...
Legal Seminar: Workplace violence and harassment
SHPonline - London,UK
In addition he undertakes the defence of workplace occupational condition claims including stress, bullying and harassment. He has wide experience in the ...
News Dispatch - Michigan City,IN,USA
Related policies should demonstrate consistency; conduct (substance abuse, weapons), harassment (include bullying and threatening behavior) and domestic ...
Bullying culture in Fire Service exposed by country-wide survey
PersonnelToday.com - UK
Firefighters are suffering high levels of bullying, harassment and violence at work, a service-wide survey has revealed. A fifth had witnessed sex ...
No Public Displays of Affection Allowed
AlterNet - San Francisco,CA,USA
Bullying is a massive problem in the schools (not to mention the workplace, the streets and the blogosphere), so it is rather shocking that one Memphis, ...
Metro Canada - Halifax - Halifax,Canada
The NSGEU started its Blow the Whistle on Workplace Violence campaign this week after speaking with a cross-section of nurses and finding almost unanimously ...
The Lawyers Weekly
Lawyers Weekly - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Many have delayed addressing workplace bullying, confident that their anti-violence and anti-harassment policies sufficiently address the issue. ...
NZ On-Hire Industry puts safety first
Scoop.co.nz (press release) - New Zealand
The module combines on-hired employee safety and discrimination, bullying and harassment information,�Mr McComish said. When an OHS incident ends up in ...
Portalino - Italy
... mental pressures at the workplace: 80% of them were exposed to time pressure or overload of work and almost 20% were exposed to harassment or bullying. ...
Collie Mail - Collie,Western Australia,Australia
"Harassment, violence, aggression, bullying and sexual, religious and cultural discrimination are neither condoned nor tolerated by IHI or its contracting ...
24 Hours Vancouver - Vancouver,British Columbia,Canada
"We need to start looking at how we protect people from psychological harassment or psychological violence in the workplace," said Mayencourt in an ...
PerthNow - Perth,WA,Australia
"They were also more dysfunctional and engaged in riskier behaviours ... like workplace violence, harassment and bullying.'' The study, which relies on data ...
Trio jailed for bullying Muslim workpal
Halesowen News - Halesowen,England,UK
Skett, of Erdington, Melaney, of Kingstanding, and McDermott all admitted racially aggravated harassment and putting another in fear of violence. ...
One in six health staff are attacked - report
Shields Gazette - South Shields,England,UK
By David MacLean A HARD-hitting report on South Tyneside's health service reveals the appalling level of harassment, bullying and violence staff face at ...
In Maryland, A Plan to Tackle Bullies in Class
Washington Post - United States
More than 2000 incidents of bullying were reported in Maryland public schools in the 2005-06 school year, compared with 1000 the previous year, according to ...
BirminghamMail.net - Birmingham,UK
THREE men who tried to make a Muslim workmate eat bacon, knowing it was against his religious beliefs, in a ten-month campaign of racial harassment ...
What hope is there when hospital staff can't wash their hands?
Hampstead and Highgate Express - London,England,UK
The Whittington's director of human resources, Margaret Boltwood, said: "In the past year more workplace harassment advisers have been appointed. ...
Sioux City Journal - Sioux City,IA,USA
Previewing his "Workplace Bullying -- the New Harassment" presentation, Namie agreed to do a Q & A with the Sioux City Journal. Sioux City Journal: "Why is ...
Oak Brook Business Ledger - Oak Brook,IL,USA
Now workplace violence is considered everything from bullying e-mails and verbal threats at one end of the spectrum, to the ultimate, a deadly attack by ...
Verbal abuse from patients on the increase at hospital
this is hampshire.net - Winchester,England,UK
Mr Brazier said: "The survey shows good work that is undermined by levels of harassment and bullying from patients and their relatives. ...
Use of 'Gay' as Synonym for Uncool or Rubbish Must Be Challenged ...
UK Gay News (press release) - UK
I passionately believe that whether in school, college, university or the workplace, people have the right to study and work without fear or prejudice ...
Sioux City Journal - Sioux City,IA,USA
"This is a great chance to continue our community dialogue and focus on preventing bullying, violence and harassment." This is the Waitt Institute's third ...
Hospital staff abuse under-reported
Hendon & Finchley Times - London,England,UK
One in ten staff working at the hospitals were assaulted by patients or their relatives last year, while a quarter were bullied, harassed or abused in other ...
NHS staff opinions on patient care
this is hampshire.net - Winchester,England,UK
She added: "SCAS has a zero tolerance stance on bullying and harassment against staff and has, and will take forward prosecutions against individuals who ...
12 months that shook Britain: the story of the strike
Workers' Liberty - London,UK
Black groups organised to help the miners; and miners came to understand better what black communities feel about police harassment. ...
The price of incivility in the workplace
Vancouver Sun - British Columbia, Canada
While the schoolyard bully may use physical violence, or the threat of it, the workplace bully uses more subtle forms of coercion, such as innuendo, ...
TechRepublic - Louisville,KY,USA
The Workplace Bullying Institute offers three suggestions for what to do if you're an office bullying target: Give the abuse a name: bullying, ...
Bullying worse than sexual harassment: Study
Canadian HR Reporter - Scarborough,Ontario,Canada
Workplace bullying or "psychological aggression� is also more harmful to employees' well-being and job satisfaction than sexual harassment. ...
It's getting rougher dealing with the public
Globe and Mail - Canada
Indeed, for many municipal workers, bullying, harassment and even violence is a part of daily work life. What's more, says CUPE Local 79 president Ann ...
Bullying is a relationship problem, new study confirms
WebWire (press release) - Atlanta,GA,USA
Drs. Craig and Pepler are co-directors of PREVNET (Promoting Relationships and Eliminating Violence Network): a national network to address problems of ...
Brockton man sues Wal-Mart over alleged discrimination
The Patriot Ledger - Quincy,MA,USA
He claims he was fired for "workplace violence� less than a week later. Surprenant said he's going to request that the case be moved back to Superior Court ...
Canadian Study: Workplace Bullying Bad For Business
AHN - USA
Toronto, Canada (AHN) - Workplace bullying may be worse than sexual harassment, according to a study by two Canadian researchers. ...
'Violent and crude' stalker jailed 70 days
Collingwood Enterprise Bulletin - Collingwood,Ontario,Canada
Prosecutor Enno Meijers read that the defendant "followed" the male complainant to his workplace at a local supermarket, where he boldly entered the inner ...
Bullying a serious job hazard
Globe and Mail - Canada
The research- ers embarked on the study to see if sexual harassment deserved its reputation as the worst of workplace ills. "Originally, we thought it would ...
New research suggests bullying at work can have big implications ...
ABC News - USA
"Bullying is psychological violence," said Gary Namie, director of the Workplace Bullying Institute (WBI) in Washington, and author of "The Bully at Work. ...
Wyoming Tribune - Cheyenne,WY,USA
A letter last week from an arbitrator hired by the Cheyenne Public Employees Association said the two were are "bullying" and "intimidating" city employees, ...
10 actions you can focus on to influence culture of respect ...
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
There would be no place for harassment, discrimination, bullying, workplace violence, unethical actions, or other disrespectful and potentially illegal ...
Bullying the epidemic that'sa growing concern
Blogger News Network - USA
... when informed about the workplace bully. "�In light of extant internal anti-harassment and anti-violence policies the response of employers is puzzling. ...
California: Anti-Semitic Incidents Show Slight Decline in 2007
Anti-Defamation League (press release) - New York,NY,USA
Incidents in Greater Los Angeles reflected the infusion of anti-Jewish harassment into the mainstream. This includes graffiti, name-calling, bullying and ...
One in three nurses face regular abuse from patients or their ...
Daily Mail - UK
The researchers asked almost 40000 nurses about their experience of violence in the workplace, including physical and verbal abuse, harassment and bullying. ...
Advocates, opponents of trans rights bill to have their say on ...
EDGE Boston - Boston,MA,USA
Jane Doe, Inc., the state's coalition of organizations working against sexual assault and domestic violence, and the Massachusetts chapter of the National ...
Bullying in school
Charlotte Observer - Charlotte,NC,USA
School shooters have often been victims of intimidation and harassment. That is why they turn to violence, for the justice they never received. ...
The dangerous workplaceWomen especially are at risk in many jobs ...
BCLocalNews - Victoria,BC,Canada
The RCMP doesn't keep statistics on workplace violence against women - although they do track domestic violence. Similarly, the Victoria Police Department ...
IT Week - London,UK
... and occasionally physical, abuse from library users, and bullying and harassment are as likely to happen in a library as in any other workplace. ...
Union calls for paid time off for equality reps
Abeceder - Leeds,England,UK
A survey of Unite equality reps published today revealed that 82% tackled bullying and harassment at work, making it the single biggest equalities issue for ...
Labor News Roundup
Guerrilla News Network - USA
Coffee Bean workers are standing up to management bullying and responded to the recent aggression by declaring 100% membership in the union branch. ...
Background Screening Expert Returns from World Tour with ...
Emediawire (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA
... and property theft as well as the usual suspects of workplace bullying, harassment and violence, the 21st century business community is under siege. ...
Canada NewsWire (press release) - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
... workplace violence legislation doesn't go far enough to protect women. ... gossiping, bullying and harassment are also common forms of violence. ...
MercatorNet
Psychological violence. That's what the new offence will be called if a bill ... are also hard to prove, such as bullying or harassment in the workplace. ...
Times Online
Like harassment, psychological violence, intimidation, and abuse, ... gather for the Seventh International Conference on Workplace Bullying and Harassment. ...
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Linex Legal
Workplace bullying is an issue high on the agenda for all HR and risk ... The HSE recognise bullying is a form of organisational violence and as a potential ...
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Tampabay.com
A handbook on workplace violence published by the US Department of Agriculture cites harassing or bullying behavior, conflicts with co-workers, ...
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Emailwire
If a factory manager says nothing when they overhear sexual harassment, ... administrator and you will place yourself in greater danger for actual violence. ...
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Lexology
Employers are reminded to promptly address any claims of workplace bullying or harassment if and when it arises. This case demonstrates the importance of ...
Balkans.com Business News
Concern about psychosocial risks such as stress, violence and harassment is ... the first findings of the biggest workplace health and safety survey in ...
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Diverse: Issues in Higher Educatio
In addition to academic bullying, the incidence of workplace violence is no longer rare in higher education. High-profile cases, such as the February ...
The Province
Ontario will be the third province to legislate against workplace violence and harassment, along with Quebec and Saskatchewan. The Queen's University study ...
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