“Sticks and stones can break your bones, but words can break your spirit”, says (Vega. G). Workplace bullying is a serious issue that no one wants to talk about. Some employees never report it and try to deal with it themselves; being that there is no type of laws to protect them from being bullied. They become stressed, frequent call outs, or even suicidal. This is a more severe form of harassment that our workplace laws do not currently cover. Although most people that are being bullied in the workplace have argued that it’s a type of discrimination, should it become a state and federal law?
All employees need to be pushed harder, from time to time, in order to do their best and achieve things they might not achieve. Would you call this bullying? …show more content…
Laws that prohibit workplace harassments and other bad behavior in the workplace fall well short of proving adequate remedies for targets of bullying. The real value of a law, and the true purpose of the Healthy Workplace Bill, is to get employers to prevent bullying with policies and procedures that apply to all employees. The Bill, crafted by law professor David Yamada for the Healthy Workplace Campaign, gives good employers incentives to do the right thing by avoiding expensive litigation. David Yamada has arguably been the leading American legal scholar in addressing workplace bullying. In 2000, Yamada first proposed a legislative response to workplace bullying and began to stress the need for protection from “status-blind” hostile behaviors. He followed this up in 2004 with what has become known as the Healthy Workplace Bill. This proposed bill would make it an unlawful employment practice to subject an employs to an abusive working environment, (Yamada, 2004:519). Even though Yamada Bill has not passed, some brave, early-adopting employers realized that stopping bullying is good for business. Sioux City Iowa is the first school district in the nation to address workplace bullying for their adult employees. They have voluntarily created policies and credible enforcement procedures to purge destructive individuals. But these pioneering employers are few and far between.
All employees need to be pushed harder, from time to time, in order to do their best and achieve things they might not achieve. Would you call this bullying? …show more content…
Laws that prohibit workplace harassments and other bad behavior in the workplace fall well short of proving adequate remedies for targets of bullying. The real value of a law, and the true purpose of the Healthy Workplace Bill, is to get employers to prevent bullying with policies and procedures that apply to all employees. The Bill, crafted by law professor David Yamada for the Healthy Workplace Campaign, gives good employers incentives to do the right thing by avoiding expensive litigation. David Yamada has arguably been the leading American legal scholar in addressing workplace bullying. In 2000, Yamada first proposed a legislative response to workplace bullying and began to stress the need for protection from “status-blind” hostile behaviors. He followed this up in 2004 with what has become known as the Healthy Workplace Bill. This proposed bill would make it an unlawful employment practice to subject an employs to an abusive working environment, (Yamada, 2004:519). Even though Yamada Bill has not passed, some brave, early-adopting employers realized that stopping bullying is good for business. Sioux City Iowa is the first school district in the nation to address workplace bullying for their adult employees. They have voluntarily created policies and credible enforcement procedures to purge destructive individuals. But these pioneering employers are few and far between.