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Growing Push to Halt Workplace Bullying
By SAM HANANEL Associated Press
WASHINGTON March 1, 2013 (AP)


Margaret Fiester is no shrinking violet, but she says working for her former boss was a nightmare.

"One day I didn't do something right and she actually laid her hands on me and got up in my face and started yelling, 'Why did you do that?'" said Fiester, who worked as a legal assistant for an attorney.

Fiester doesn't have to worry about those tirades anymore, but she hears lots of similar stories in her current role as operations manager at the Society for Human Resource Management, where she often fields questions about the growing issue of workplace bullying.

On-the-job bullying can take many forms, from a supervisor's verbal abuse and threats to cruel comments or relentless teasing by a co-worker. And it could become the next major battleground in employment law as a growing number of states consider legislation that would let workers sue for harassment that causes physical or emotional harm.

"I believe this is the new claim that employers will deal with. This will replace sexual harassment," said Sharon Parella, a management-side employment lawyer in New York. "People who oppose it say these laws will force people to be polite at work. But you can no longer go to work and act like a beast and get away with it."...................>>>>....................>>>>..................http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/growing-push-halt-workplace-bullying-18625977

alright...help me to understand why there needs to be BULLYING laws for work.....the HR department already covers all that crap
that is already illegal in the state/federal employment laws regarding employee/employer relations.....

really?

WE DON'T NEED ANYMORE BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION/MANIPULATION LAWS.....THAT'S WHAT CHURCH AND CULTS ARE FOR....

an assault is an assault....it doesn't need podium puck verbage......