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Action Needed to Pass Healthy Workplace Bill in New York State

Monday, June 9th, 2014

From New York Healthy Work Place Advocates
The 2013-2014 Session of the NYS Legislature ends next week on Thursday, June 19, 2014. During these last eight days that the NYS legislature meets, a few select pieces of legislation will be passed. Your recent calls resulted last week in the Healthy Workplace Bill being passed in the Senate Labor Committee on June 3, 2014.

In the Senate, the bill S3863 must next pass through the Senate Finance Committee and then go to the floor for a vote. In the Assembly, the bill A4965 must next pass through the Assembly Labor Committee and then go to the floor for a vote.

Please call to tell the five key NYS legislators listed below that you want the Healthy Workplace Bill (bill numbers: S3863 / A4965) to go to a floor vote before session ends.
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Update From New York Healthy Workplace Advocates About Healthy Workplace Bill

Wednesday, June 4th, 2014

From Mike Schlicht, NYHWA Co-Coordinator:
The State of Tennessee has passed the first bill to address workplace bullying but for those of us in New York State familiar with the Workplace Violence Prevention Law, policies mean little even if you are a public employee which this law only pertains to. As some of us have found out the hard way, the NYS Workplace Violence Prevention Law, if, and when it is enforced by a public employer, can and is used to target people in abusive work environments to react to intentional and malicious acts of workplace bullying. [That is, targets of abuse are baited by abusers and/or their flunkies].

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Colleague Larry Shore Wants to Post Comments on the WORD Blog

Wednesday, June 4th, 2014

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New York Healthy Workplace Bill – Action Needed – Part II

Friday, May 23rd, 2014

The NYS Healthy Workplace Bill (HWB) Assembly Bill A4965 / Senate Bill S3863 is expected to go to a vote in both the Assembly and Senate Labor Committees. This bill addresses bullying in the workplace. The New York Healthy Workplace Advocates (NYHWA) is asking for your assistance by calling several members of both committees to ask for their vote in the passage of the bill.

Below, New York City Assemblymembers to be contacted:

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