Workplace Bullying is repeated, health-harming mistreatment of one or more persons (the targets) by one or more perpetrators that takes one or more of the following forms:

• Verbal abuse.
• Offensive conduct/behaviors (including nonverbal) which are threatening, humiliating or intimidating
• Work interference – sabotage – which prevents work from getting done.

What the HWB Does for Employers

• 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
• Protects 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

What the HWB Does for Workers

• Provides an avenue for legal redress for health harming cruelty at work
• Allows you to sue the bully as an individual
• Holds the employer accountable
• Seeks restoration of lost wages and benefits
• Compels employers to prevent and correct future instances

What the HWB Does Not Do

• 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"
• http://www.healthyworkplacebill.org/bill.php

This petition is sponsored by the Arizona Healthy Workplace Advocates: arizhwa@gmail.com