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].
NYHWA encourages everyone to listen to Professor Doe’s account of workplace bullying and his public employer refusing to enforce their own policy. See below. They also used the Workplace Violence Prevention Law to penalize him $6000 for swiping a piece of paper out of a persons hand … the person who was bullying him and he reacted as could be exepected as one person can only tolerate so much.
The state legislature of Tennessee in its rush to be “first” should have done its research and listened to those affected by workplace bullying to come up with a better solution that also holds employers accountable. NYHWA on Facebook.
This logo of Colleagues complicity with or supportive of phony Violence in the Workplace complaints filed in D:F/M. This is being revised and any Colleague who believes he/she has been poorly portrayed should contact me.
Gregg Morris, editor of the WORD and this site.
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