Pass a Connecticut Healthy Workplace Bill PETITION FOR 2011

[Kathy]

If you haven't done so already, please sign the petition at
http://www.change.org/petitions/view/pass_a_connecticut_healthy_workplace_bill.

By signing this petition, an email will be sent directly to your CT
assembly representatives and senators if you live in Connecticut. The
petition as a whole will be presented in late January to the Labor and
Public Employees Committee. Thank you for your commitment to helping
us deter workplace bullying!

TEXT:

Preamble:

Targeting: The Governor of CT, The CT State Senate, and The CT State
House
Started by: Katherine Hermes
The Healthy Workplace Bill, written by The Workplace Bullying
Institute's affiliated law professor, David Yamada, carries no
employer mandate, no fiscal impact for the state requiring state
agency engagement, and a high threshold of evidentiary proof to assure
that only the most serious and egregious cases become lawsuits. It
helps employees who have suffered malicious, intention, health-harming
abuse from co-workers or bosses, but rewards good employers with
escape from liability if they take proactive steps to prevent an
abusive work environment. Only chronically bad employers with repeat
offenses will be afraid of this incremental legislation.

Connecticut Healthy Workplace Advocates urges Connecticut legislators
and its new governor, Dan Malloy, to support this legislation, which
has been introduced in prior years.

Over 200 state legislators of both political parties in 17 states
since 2003 have sponsored and co-sponsored the anti-abusive conduct
Healthy Workplace Bill. The bill has overwhelming support among voters
who work for a living.

Letter:

The Healthy Workplace Bill: Ending Abusive Conduct at Work

Dear Members of the Connecticut General Assembly:

I am signing this petition as a Connecticut constituents who supports
a Healthy Workplace Bill. It's time to independently trust your heart,
to listen to individuals in your district! If employers have to abuse
employees to operate, they should lose their right to conduct business
or to serve the pubic. We deserve a healthy, productive, safe working
environment.

We desire a healthy workplace bill that contains the following
provisions, as outlined by the Workplace Bullying Institute:

Precisely defines an "abusive work environment" -- it is a high
standard for misconduct

Requires proof of health harm by licensed health or mental health
professionals

Protect conscientious employers from vicarious liability risk when
internal correction and prevention mechanisms are in effect

Gives employers the reason to terminate or sanction offenders

Requires plaintiffs to use private attorneys

Plugs the gaps in current state and federal civil rights protections

Provides an avenue for legal redress for health harming cruelty at
work

Allows those whose health has been intentionally harmed to sue the
bully as an individual

Holds the employer accountable if the employer has taken no action to
stop the abusive conduct

Seeks restoration of lost wages and benefits

Compels employers to prevent and correct future instances.

The Healthy Workplace Bill will not

Involve state agencies to enforce any provisions of the law

Incur costs for adopting states

Require plaintiffs to be members of protected status groups (it is
"status-blind")

Use the term "workplace bullying"

The Healthy Workplace Bill information can be found at
http://www.healthyworkplacebill.org/bill.php

Thank you for your consideration and concern for the workers of our
state and for good employment practices.

Sincerely,

[Your name]

[D Mac]

Hi Kathy,

Listen, thought I'd alert you.  I received an e-mail from Ma...@change.org and clicked on the Facebook Link.  It automatically signed me into the page and I am now on the list of Friends.  I did not want to do that and now I can not remove my information from your F.B. page.  I am now receiving requests from strangers via my e-mail not F.B.  Can you please delete my information from your F.B. list as soon as possible.  If this is not legitimate please let me know.

Thanks,

Darlene McGuire.

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From: Kathy <ctbully...@gmail.com>
To: Connecticut BullyBusters <connecticut-...@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Thu, December 2, 2010 8:29:44 AM
Subject: [CTBB:388] Pass a Connecticut Healthy Workplace Bill PETITION FOR 2011

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