by Catherine Mattice | Jul 18, 2012 | Workplace bullying
With the heartbreaking January suicide of yet another bullied teenager, Phoebe Prince, a 15-year old in Massachusetts, the topic of bullying has again captured our attention. According to District Attorney Elizabeth Scheibel, who is charging nine teens for torturous...
by Catherine Mattice | Jul 17, 2012 | Workplace bullying
What is the penalties for bullying? Here is an excerpt from an interesting article by The Sydney Morning Herald. “A COURT decision yesterday to issue $335,000 in fines arising from workplace behaviour that resulted in a waitress committing suicide highlights the...
by Catherine Mattice | Jul 17, 2012 | Workplace bullying
You deserve equal benefits in your job. Given. But what is your company doing to truly create a gay-supportive work atmosphere? Equal benefits are the bedrock of any business espousing true support of its LGBT employees. A transgender man denied access to mental...
by Catherine Mattice | Jul 16, 2012 | Workplace bullying
The idea that bullies exist at work is not a new one; articles and workshops on “dealing with difficult people” and “mean bosses” are abundant. However, “bullying” only recently became of interest to social scientists in the areas of organizational psychology and...
by Catherine Mattice | Jul 16, 2012 | Workplace bullying
One of the emerging issues in employment law today is workplace bullying. Laws have been proposed in at least a dozen states that would address abusive behavior in the workplace, but so far none has become law. The difficulty seems to be in distinguishing bullying...
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