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Ban The Bully

Posted by Ross Arrowsmith on Saturday, December 29th 2007 under Workplace bullying   
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By Michael Felton-O’Brien, HREOnline.com Since 2003, legislation to control the problem of workplace bullying has been introduced in a dozen states. But can legislating workplace behavior really solve the problem? Growing up with a younger sibling who suffered from severe physical disabilities, Sherrill Gilbert often stood up to schoolyard bullies on her sister’s behalf. But [...]

Anti-Bullying Best Practices

Posted by Ross Arrowsmith on Saturday, December 29th 2007 under Workplace bullying   
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By Andrew R. McIlvaine, HREOnline.com Terri Howard, vice president for corporate preparedness at the Crisis Prevention Institute, a training company based in Brookfield, Wis., which was founded to provide safety training to human services professionals, recently spoke with Senior Editor Andrew R. McIlvaine about what HR leaders should do to ensure their workplaces are bully-free, [...]

N.S. hospital workers awarded damages in bullying case

Posted by Ross Arrowsmith on Thursday, December 20th 2007 under Workplace bullying   
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from CBC News A group of workers at Nova Scotia’s largest hospital who complained of being bullied have been awarded $10,000 in a decision their union calls “groundbreaking.” The employees of the Capital District Health Authority work in a department where donated tissue is retrieved and distributed. “There was sexual harrassment. There was inappropriate comments. [...]

Bullying: Tackling tormentors

Posted by Ross Arrowsmith on Thursday, December 20th 2007 under Workplace bullying   
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from PersonnelToday.com The government recently issued guidance for schools on how to address cyber-bullying among pupils. But cyber-bullying isn’t just child’s play. As the popularity of new technologies (cameras on mobile telephones, BlackBerries etc) and internet sites such as YouTube, Facebook, MySpace and other Web 2.0 sites has increased in the workforce, so too has [...]

Policy change focus of inquest into nurse’s death

Posted by Ross Arrowsmith on Tuesday, December 18th 2007 under Healthcare violence, Workplace violence   
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from Canadian Occupational Health & Safety News A coroner’s jury examining the murder of an Ontario nurse two years ago has recommended that hospitals implement a policy to address abuse, harassment and domestic violence as issues that may make their way into the workplace. Jury members from the 10-week inquest — which began in September [...]

Domestic violence a workplace issue, too

Posted by Ross Arrowsmith on Tuesday, December 18th 2007 under Domestic violence at work, Workplace violence   
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from Laura Raines, ajcjobs Domestic violence isn’t just a family or social issue. “It has a major impact in the workplace,” according to Cathy Willis Spraetz, president and CEO of Partnership Against Domestic Violence. One in three women will experience intimate-partner violence — and most of those women work, Spraetz said. Domestic violence is a [...]

Preventing Violence at Work – 2008 Seminar Dates Announced

Posted by Ross Arrowsmith on Sunday, December 16th 2007 under Workplace violence seminars   
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from Workers’ Compensation Board – Alberta The WCB – Alberta offers a free, 3-hour seminar to employers who are seeking to develop a workplace violence prevention program. The seminar, entitled; “Preventing Violence at Work” targets professionals from the fields of health & safety, human resources, security and management who are tasked with the responsibility of [...]

School attack alarms staff – Teachers fear bully parents; mom claims son was victim

Posted by Ross Arrowsmith on Sunday, December 16th 2007 under Workplace bullying   
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from Jamie Komarnicki, Calgary Herald The attack on a principal who was thrown to the ground and punched at a West Dover school highlights a larger issue of increasing parental harassment, says a teachers’ union official. “We know those incidents are on the rise and we know it’s an issue in, I dare say, every [...]

Office Xmas party attacks on the rise

Posted by Ross Arrowsmith on Sunday, December 16th 2007 under Workplace violence   
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from theage.com.au (Australia) Victims of sexual assault at workplace Christmas functions are being urged to report the incidents. Assaults have spiked this Christmas party season, and male bosses are to blame in almost three quarters of cases, the NSW Rape Crisis Centre says. Its manager Karen Willis said the centre had received three complaints every [...]

Keep anger in check – Company actions can help prevent workplace violence

Posted by Ross Arrowsmith on Sunday, December 16th 2007 under Workplace violence   
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from Laura Raines, ajcjobs Six employees of the Von Maur department store in Omaha, Neb., probably expected some disgruntled as well as happy holiday shoppers as they headed to work on Dec. 6. They didn’t expect a complete stranger with a semi-automatic rifle to end their lives that day. “People read about violence in the [...]

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