from Allison Van Dusen, Forbes.com & ABC News
Chances are if you work with others, you’ll be bullied at some point in your career.
In the U.S., where the practice is being studied, an estimated 37 percent of workers, or about 54 million people, have been bullied at the office, or repeatedly mistreated in a health-harming way, [...]

from Oud Consultancy
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from Marguerite La Haye, The Sault Star
Workplace bullying leaves an employee physically and emotionally drained and should be nipped in the bud.
That message came from Ann Mitchell, Prince Township’s administrator, who resigned earlier this month to move on to a “good career opportunity” in another municipality.
Mitchell said in interview that she had been bullied by [...]

from Richard Brooks, The Press-Enterprise
Fatal school shootings have occurred six times in California since 1976, when Edward Allaway killed seven fellow university employees and wounded two others in the Cal State Fullerton library.
Since then, nationwide bloodbaths have erupted from Columbine to Virginia Tech.
Now, the Fontana Police Department is joining other law enforcement agencies in [...]

John Lorinc, The Globe and Mail
The scene could scarcely have been more benign. During Wednesday’s lunch hour, a trickle of people ambled up to the cashiers’ counter inside the East York Civic Centre to pay tax and water bills. A woman exchanged pleasantries with a clerk, then dashed off. An older man fumbled with an [...]

Donald P. Russo, The Morning Call
”The concept of workplace bullying is an undefined area of employment law.”
Those of us hurtling through our middle-aged years will, every once in a while, have one of those ”Oh, how times have changed” moments. I had one last week while doing some legal research on the Internet. I found [...]

from Arielle Levin Becker, Courant.com
Law enforcement authorities and educators may not be able to prevent every school shooting, but they can identify a “toxic recipe for disaster” — five characteristics typical in the students behind such violence, Jo Ann Freiberg told a gathering of nearly 600 educators and police Thursday morning.
“Students having this profile are [...]

from Bernice Mulligan, independent.ie
We have all fantasised about the inappropriate things we would like to say to our boss as we march out defiantly on our last day. But before you start working on your speech, think of the consequences
Sooner or later, we’ve all imagined — with relish — what it would be like to [...]

from Alyson Pellowe, OnRec.com
The recent increase in harassment and bullying cases has lead to a growing confusion among managers regarding their legal position with regards to this potentially explosive issue. A recent poll revelled that 69% of employees at Law firm Peninsula reported being bullied at work during 2007; this was a rise of 16% [...]

from Tory Johnson, ABC News
Nearly 40 percent of American workers say they have experienced workplace bullying, according to a new study by research firm Zogby International.
A University of Minnesota report released earlier this month found the emotional toll associated with workplace bullying can be more severe than that of sexual harassment.
While sexual harassment is illegal, [...]