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 when it [...]

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, and [...]

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. People were very [...]

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 the opportunity [...]

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 and heard [...]

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 pattern of abusive behaviors [...]

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 developing [...]

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 school in [...]

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 48 hours of [...]

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 news and [...]