Category: Crash course
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OSHA’s Saving Millions of Workers’ Lives
AN AMERICAN GOVERNMENT LAW AND AGENCY THAT HAS SAVED MILLIONS OF WORKERS’ LIVES: THE OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ACT AND OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION A HUGE STEP FORWARD IN WORKPLACE REFORM In 1970, the U.S. Congress and President Richard Nixon passed a monumental bill, the Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Act, to protect America’s workers against…
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France Has The Strongest Workplace Anti-bullying Law to Date
France, along with Sweden, are considered to have the strongest legal protections against workplace psychological abuse. The way the French handle bullying and mobbing in the workplace has pros and cons that offer useful lessons for American advocates of psychological safety at work. A COMPREHENSIVE CONCEPTION OF WORKPLACE SAFETY AND HEALTH Following a 1989 European…
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International laws
THE U.S. IS ONE OF THE LAST INDUSTRIALIZED NATIONS TO ADDRESS WORKPLACE ABUSE (ALSO KNOWN AS BULLYING, MORAL HARASSMENT, PSYCHOLOGICAL HARASSMENT, AND POWER HARASSMENT). So who’s already addressed it, and what do their laws do? 1993: SwedenOrdinance Concerning Victimisation at Work1996: BelgiumAct on well-being of workers in the performance of their work (includes criminal liability)…
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U.S. Laws
PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY AT WORK IS A HUMAN RIGHT. Ensuring workers’ psychological safety will require a reliance on strong state laws leading to a federal law, enforcement of laws, and a dedicated labor movement, including unions, to hold employers accountable. Laws must cover all workers, all or most types of abuse, clear accessible pathways to fair and…
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How Sexual Harassment Law Shapes Our Direction
WE KNOW THAT SEXUAL HARASSMENT LAW HAS ADVANCED WORKERS’ RIGHTS, ESPECIALLY FOR WOMEN. BUT WHAT HAS IT DONE — AND NOT DONE — TO MOVE THE NEEDLE FOR WOMEN? HOW IS IT ENABLING THOSE WRITING THE RULES TO KEEP THEMSELVES IN POWER TO CLING ONTO THE STATUS QUO? Let’s look to Yale Law School’s Reva…
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Why Discrimination Law Is an Epic Failure
ANTIDISCRIMINATION LAW HAS FAILED TO DISMANTLE SOCIAL HIERARCHIES IN THE WORKPLACE In 1966, when the EEOC started collecting data on the race and gender composition of workplaces, white men were overwhelmingly overrepresented in power positions. African American men and women and white women were dramatically underrepresented in them relative to their numbers in the labor…
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The Discriminatory Nature of Workplace Psychological Abuse
EMPLOYERS CHANNEL DISCRMINATION THROUGH BULLYING ACTS TO KEEP THOSE WHO THREATEN THEIR POWER OUT OF POWER. At the heart of workplace psychological abuse is the imbalance and misuse of power, with people of color, women, members of the LGBTQ community, the oldest and youngest members of the workforce, those with disabilities, and other groups left out…
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The Big Picture
THE WORKPLACE PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY ACT ADDRESSES A PSYCHOLOGICAL ABUSE ISSUE ROOTED IN THE SOCIAL PROBLEM OF DISCRIMINATION, A REINFORCEMENT OF THE SOCIAL HIERARCHY. Employers reinforce the hierarchy with such tactics as: These tactics keep workers at the mercy of employers and trapped in submission. Meanwhile, deindustrialization, fewer unions, and an increase in the number of corporate…