1. Workplace Bullying There’s Gonna Be A Law!
The Campaign to Enact the anti-bullying

2. Work•place Bul•ly•ing n
WBI Definition
Work•place Bul•ly•ing n
repeated, health-harming mistreatment by one or more people of an employee by:
verbal abuse, or
threats, intimidation, humiliation, or
work interference, sabotage, or
exploitation of a known vulnerability, or
a combination of any

3. U.S. Workplace Bullying Survey
2010
U.S. Workplace Bullying Survey
THE SECOND RESPRESENTATIVE STUDY OF ALL ADULT AMERICANS

4. 15% 26% 50% 9% U.S. Prevalence Witnessed Only Been Bullied
No Experience 9%
Current
WBI U.S. Natl
2010

5. WBI U.S. Natl
2010

6. Bullying of Men & Women by Women & Men
38%
62%
WBI U.S. Natl
2010

7. 27 % MORE Abusive Bullying Worsens in Tough Times 5 % Less 67 %
Unchanged
WBI
Summer 2009

8. Bottom Up 10% Bosses CWs 72% 18% It’s True -- Most Bullies Are Bosses
WBI U.S. Natl
2007

9. Who Is Targeted?
Retaliation
37%
WBI U.S. Natl
2007

10. $$$ Impact on Organizations
Retaliation
37%

11. Tangible Employer Costs
Turnover and Replacement Costs
Absenteeism, Presenteeism
Fatigue-Caused Errors & Accidents
Fouled Team Productivity
Litigation/Arbitration/Settlement Expenses
Workers Comp / Disability

12. Estimating Employer Costs
9% of workforce is currently bullied
66% of women targets lose jobs
Bullying accounts for 6% preventable workforce loss

13. Replacement = 2 x salary
To replace a $50,000 salaried worker costs $100,000
Assume a staff of 100 at that pay rate

14. Due to bullying, 6 people are lost
Cost to replace is $600,000
Is this an affordable cost?

15. BULLIES ARE TOO EXPENSIVE TO KEEP!
A rational, evidence/data-based truth
BULLIES ARE
TOO EXPENSIVE
TO KEEP!
Retaliation
37%

16. U.S. Employers’
Response to Bullying

17. Employers Mostly Ignore It
WBI U.S. Natl
2007

18. Bullies Bully with Impunity
Punished/Terminated 4%
Investigated
14%
No consequences
54%
Rewarded
28%
WBI
Labor Day 2009

20. The Comprehensive Program to Prevent & Correct Workplace Bullying

21. Assess Pre-Change Prevalence
Collaboratively Create an Anti-Bullying Policy
Design Enforcement Procedures applicable to all
Train a Peer Expert Team
Educate everyone -- Board to Temps
Incorporation, Integration & Impact Evaluation
© 2010 Work Doctor®, Inc.

23. There Oughta
Be a Law!
Retaliation
37%

24. Laws POLICIES Prevention & Correction ENFORCEMENT
Laws Dictate Compliance
Laws
Prevention &
Correction
POLICIES
ENFORCEMENT

25. Current Anti-Bullying Laws
Sweden: Victimisation At Work, 1994
France: Modernisation At Work, 2002
UK: Harassment (’97) & UN-HR Covenants
Australia: 1997 onward
Canada: Quebec (’04), Sask (’07), Federal (’08), Ontario (’10), Manitoba (’11)
Victoria, Australia -- CRIMINAL (’11)
U.S.: nothing, 0, zip, nada

26. 64% 24% Support 12% No Opinion Oppose Support for a Law? Retaliation
37%
No Opinion
12%
Oppose
24%
WBI U.S. Natl
2010

27. Introduced in 21 States since 2003
The U.S. Anti-Bullying
Legislative Campaign
Introduced in 21 States since 2003

28. It will be unlawful to subject ‘abusive work environment’
an employee to an
‘abusive work environment’

29. Abusive conduct is malicious, repeated mistreatment (verbal abuse, threats, intimidation, humiliation, work sabotage, exploitation of a known vulnerability) that results in demonstrable health harm or negative employment decisions

30. Affirmative Defensives for
Good Employers
• Right to discipline poor performers
• Right to terminate for illegal activity
• No vicarious liability when policy &
enforcement procedures in effect and are used

31. Right to Sue Individual Bullies

32. The National Grassroots Campaign

33. Status of the HWB in our State