We believe all people
deserve to work in
psychologically safe environments —
free from abuse and retaliation
Psychological safety should be a priority.
Our mental health depends on it.
#EndWorkplaceAbuse
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Right now, U.S. workers have little to no protection from psychological harm at work. While our government regulates physical safety, it largely ignores mental and emotional safety — allowing workplace bullying and abusive management to thrive with minimal accountability.
It is a workers’ rights crisis.
End Workplace Abuse is building a national movement to change that. We advocate for laws that protect psychological safety, hold employers accountable, and ensure respect, dignity, and fair treatment at work. We educate workers, raise public awareness, and organize leaders to transform toxic workplace systems.
Together, we can end workplace abuse and create safer, healthier workplaces for all.
Right now, U.S. workers have little to no protection from psychological harm at work. While our government regulates physical safety, it largely ignores mental and emotional safety — allowing workplace bullying and abusive management to thrive with minimal accountability.
We DEMAND justice for bonnie
For months, Dr. Antoinette “Bonnie” Candia-Bailey documented and reported bullying of President John Moseley to the proper workplace authorities, including the Board of Curators who oversee the President at Lincoln University in Missouri where she served as the Vice President of Student Affairs — to no avail.
On January 8, 2024, 49-year old Dr. Candia-Bailey took her own life, attributed to workplace abuse — reported bullying and the institutional complicity that not only disregarded her complaints but also escalated the abuse to purge her from the payroll to avoid a perceived threat of liability.
President Moseley took paid leave during Lincoln’s “investigation,” in which a third party found no liability on the university’s end, what many might call an “investigation” on themselves. President Moseley was reinstated.
On October 8, 2025, End Workplace Abuse will send an open letter to Lincoln University President John Moseley and the Board of Curators demanding accountability for the death of Dr. Antoinette “Bonnie” Candia-Bailey, the university’s former Vice President of Student Affairs.
The letter — backed by more than 1,700 student, alumni, educator, and community signatures — calls for Moseley’s removal, the resignation of the Board, an independent investigation, and sweeping institutional reform.
“Dr. Candia-Bailey asked for help. She was reportedly denied. Days later, she was gone,” the letter reads. “This was not just a personal tragedy — it was an institutional failure.”
Advocates say the demands at Lincoln reflect a broader call for accountability at all institutions where bullying and neglect are allowed to persist unchecked.
End Workplace Abuse is building a national movement to change that. We advocate for laws that protect psychological safety, hold employers accountable, and ensure respect, dignity, and fair treatment at work. We educate workers, raise public awareness, and organize leaders to transform toxic workplace system
how to stand up to workplace abuse
Workplace abuse is far more common than acknowledged, yet navigating it can feel isolating and impossible—something even an experienced HR chief learned when targeted by her own CEO.
Traditional channels like legal counsel and the board failed her, leaving her alone in a hostile environment and forced to find her own way forward.
In response, she created the FEAR NOT Framework, a practical seven-step approach designed to help employees regain control: manage fear, gather evidence, articulate a clear and professional complaint, show resolve amid retaliation, navigate investigations wisely, seek leverage from outcomes, and finally, tell their story to break the silence that enables abuse.
The message is clear: you are not powerless.
Survivors of Workplace Abuse
Bill of Rights
We’re committed to ensuring that all workers are guaranteed working environments in which they’re treated with dignity, an inherent basic right. Every worker deserves to feel:
- Safe. Workers deserve a workplace free of verbal abuse, threats, sabotage, and abuse of any kind.
- A sense of belonging. Workers deserve a right to feel like we are included in an organization and part of a team.
- Valued. Workers deserve a right to feel like our contributions have worth and importance.
- Respected. Workers deserve a right to dignity and have our human needs and individual strengths and weaknesses honored.
- Healthy. Workers deserve a right to feel strong. We deserve a right to work in environments that promote well-being.
- Accomplished. Workers deserve a right to information and resources necessary to do our jobs well so we can feel productive.
- Supported. Workers deserve a right to feel heard and have our needs addressed when we voice concerns.
- Fairly treated. Workers deserve a right to reasonable expectations and similar standards for our colleagues.
- Empowered. Workers deserve a right to have power and control over our work for confidence and strength.
- Part of a greater purpose. Workers deserve a right to play a meaningful role in the reason our organizations exists.
the history of employee rights to psychological safety
It’s time
to end the abuse.