Target: Hon. Andrew M. Tobin, Majority Whip; Hon. Kyrsten Sinema, Assistant Minority Leader; Rep. Tom Boone, Chair, Public Employees Committee; Rep. Michele Reagan, Commerce; Sen. Barbara Leff, Chair, Commerce and Economic Development; Sen. Linda Gray, Public  Sponsored by: Arizonans for a Healthy Workplace

Dear Members of the Arizona Legislature:

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.

 The Healthy Workplace Bill, written by our affiliated law professor, 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.

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.