Employment law measures 'must be taken against bullying'

[Geezer]

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A trade union has called for employment law to be changed in order to stamp out bullying in the workplace.

Unison has conducted a survey which reveals that a third of those polled have been a victim of bullying behaviour in the last six months, with examples including rudeness, excessive criticism and intimidation.

This figure is twice the one recorded in a similar 1997 study, with many of those questioned suggesting they have been driven out of their jobs because of bullying.

Dave Prentis, the union's general secretary, described the statistics as "shocking" and stated that Unison will now be lobbying for workplace bullying to be made illegal under employment law.

He said: "Employers [should] start to make a stand against bullies, or face losing more staff, money and morale."

This comes in the wake of a number of national strikes by Royal Mail workers, with bullying by management having been cited as one of the reasons behind the industrial action.ADNFCR-2347-ID-19451598-ADNFCR

[Stumpy]

Lets hope that this is a shot across the bows of bully boy management but I doubt it. Its going to take some strong legislation to turn back the tide of intimidation and bullying that has crept into British industry.

[mailsort6]

The law only protects employees that are bullied and harassed on the grounds of gender, disability, race and so on. You can only bring a case to an employment tribunal on these grounds. Basically general types of bullying and harassment should be sorted out within the workplace (through the grievance procedure) or even through ACAS. Employees need to look at their employer's equality and diversity statement and put in grievances if employers do not follow their own policies on bullying and harassment. Employers have a duty of care to protect their workers and should take all forms of bullying and harassment seriously.

[flaminmoses]

The law only protects employees that are bullied and harassed on the grounds of gender, disability, race and so on. You can only bring a case to an employment tribunal on these grounds. Basically general types of bullying and harassment should be sorted out within the workplace (through the grievance procedure) or even through ACAS. Employees need to look at their employer's equality and diversity statement and put in grievances if employers do not follow their own policies on bullying and harassment. Employers have a duty of care to protect their workers and should take all forms of bullying and harassment seriously.

this is and has been abused by royal mail.
they wont dare follow up greivances against managers who use excessive measures to try and get posties to complete.

its very cear they would rather the postie go down the constructive dismissal route because its cheaper for them in the long run.

dirty