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The Healthy Workplace Bill is Anemic

The proposed Healthy Workplace Bill (HWB) is touted as model legislation to combat workplace bullying in the United States but is it as healthy as it should be for American workers? No, says an international expert writing in a special issue of Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal entitled, The Law of Workplace Bullying: An … Continue reading “The Healthy Workplace Bill is Anemic”

EEOC: Proof of Psychological Harm Should Not be Required to Show Workplace Harassment

One baffling aspect of the Healthy Workplace Bill (HWB), a model state  law proposed by the Workplace Bullying Institute (WBI), is that it continues to require bullying victims to establish a higher degree of harm than is required under U.S. law. The HWB was drafted by Suffolk University Law Professor David Yamada and proposed by the WBI  a decade … Continue reading “EEOC: Proof of Psychological Harm Should Not be Required to Show Workplace Harassment”

Still Far From a National Workplace Bullying Solution

It is an interesting phenomenon that workplace bullying advocates seem to have a hard time working together. In fact, they don’t, which is one reason why after so many years there is no national solution on the horizon to the problem of workplace bullying. The Workplace Bullying Institute, chaired by Gary Namie, has been touting a law written … Continue reading “Still Far From a National Workplace Bullying Solution”

Time for a National Solution

The state-by-state campaign to pass the so-called Healthy Workplace Bill (HWB) is not a realistic solution to the epidemic of workplace bullying in the United States. This blog suggested in 2011  that it was time to think about options other than the HWB,  which was first proposed in 2001 and has yet be adopted by … Continue reading “Time for a National Solution”