As promised at our last meeting, I am posting information pertaining to the NYS Healthy Workplace Bill on our PECCC website. Here is the message Bill Jarvis read at our last meeting, with links. - RH
Consider supporting NYS Healthy Workplace Bill. This hostility at work undermines the effective workplaces, causes low morale, and incurs costs to the employer, often in employee sick days and health issues. Nurses and teachers are most likely to be targets of workplace hostility.
Currently, there is little recourse for an employee experiencing pervasive workplace hostility, unless one is in an identified statuses such as age, race, and gender. Even workplaces with Bullying Policies rarely include any penalty for the accuser filing FALSE charges or refusing mutual conciliation, after an investigation.
The NYS Healthy Workplace Bill (S6438 and A3250 – New York State, sponsored by Steve Englebright) is the appropriate action to curb workplace abuses. This bill gives recourse to any employee who is believes he or she is being targeted. Prior to any investigation, an administrator meets with both parties to create a plan to resolve the conflict. With the formal meeting noted and resolution efforts in place and monitored, if accuser continues by engaging in the clearly defined hostile and retaliatory practices, the accuser, if found persistent and at fault, would pay some sort of restitution (a written apology or, in more severe cases, a financial penalty). There is virtually no financial cost to employers or other taxpayers for its implementation, and does not involve outside agencies. This also protects an ethical administrators since charges are against an individual employee, not the entire institution or business. Often the best and the brightest employees – those who work from the standpoint of passion, credentials, and skills – are targeted and silenced through false accusations, sabotage, and exclusion.
NYS Healthy Workplace Bill is a win-win situation – please support it by signing the petition at the following weblink and encourage PECCC support – NYSUT supports this initiative – let’s do it for our colleagues!
Make the NYS Healthy Workplace Bill law!
http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/make-nys-healthy-workplace?source=c.em.cp&r_by=7603820
Thank you,
Susan St. John-Jarvis – 2016
More info: http://www.insideoutproject.net/en/group-actions/us-nyc
http://healthyworkplacebill.org/
Mar 30, 2016 - The definition was lifted verbatim from the website WBI Healthy Workplace Bill (HWB) authored by Suffolk University Law Professor David Yamada.