This petition calls on the Government of British Columbia to strengthen protections for workplace bullying, harassment, retaliation, workplace violence, physical assault, and psychological harm.

Every worker deserves a safe workplace free from intimidation, retaliation, humiliation, harassment, violence, and harm. Yet across British Columbia, workers continue to experience workplace bullying, workplace violence, psychological injury, and, in some cases, physical assault, often with limited accountability and inadequate protections.

Too often, workers who speak up are met with silence, delays, procedural barriers, retaliation, reputational harm, or systems that appear more focused on protecting organizations than protecting people.

Workers navigating workplace harm are often required to move through multiple systems simultaneously, including employers, Human Resources, WorkSafeBC, the BC Human Rights Tribunal (BCHRT), healthcare providers, legal systems, and appeals processes, often while managing psychological injury, financial strain, retaliation, job loss, or career disruption.

Physical assault in the workplace must never be treated solely as an internal Human Resources matter.

Where allegations of workplace violence or physical assault may meet criminal thresholds, employers should not rely exclusively on internal workplace investigations. Clear protocols must require referral to appropriate law enforcement, including the RCMP or relevant police jurisdiction, to ensure independent review, accountability, and worker safety.

We are calling on the Government of British Columbia to:

1. Strengthen workplace bullying and harassment protections  
Recognize workplace bullying and harassment as serious occupational health and safety concerns requiring stronger enforcement and accountability.

2. Require independent investigations in serious cases  
Require independent investigations where allegations involve workplace violence, physical assault, retaliation, abuse of authority, or significant power imbalances.

3. Strengthen anti-retaliation protections  
Protect workers who report workplace bullying, harassment, unsafe conditions, discrimination, or violence from reprisals and career harm.

4. Require law enforcement review for workplace physical assaults  
Require referral to the RCMP or appropriate police agencies where workplace physical assault may meet criminal thresholds.

5. Improve trauma-informed complaint processes  
Ensure complaint systems are trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and accessible to harmed workers.

6. Increase transparency and accountability  
Improve oversight and accountability regarding how workplace bullying, harassment, and violence complaints are addressed.

7. Review barriers within complaint and appeals systems  
Review systemic barriers that prevent harmed workers from accessing fair remedies.

8. Recognize psychological injury and moral injury  
Acknowledge the long-term impact workplace harm has on workers, families, careers, and mental well-being.

9. Extend filing timelines for WorkSafeBC and BCHRT complaints  
Extend limitation periods to reflect the realities of trauma, retaliation, delayed reporting, and recovery from workplace harm.

10. Improve access to independent advocacy and navigation supports  
Provide independent, trauma-informed supports to help harmed workers navigate complaint systems and understand their rights.

Workers should not lose access to justice because they were focused on surviving harm.

Created by:  
Camille Mc Millan Rambharat  
Workforce & Leadership Advisor | Workplace Justice Advocate | Author | Speaker

Camille Mc Millan Rambharat is a workplace justice advocate with more than 25 years of experience in workforce development, leadership, workplace equity, and systems engagement across Canada and the Caribbean.

Through lived experience, professional practice, and public advocacy, she works to advance psychologically safer, more accountable workplaces and stronger protections for workers navigating workplace harm in British Columbia and beyond.

This petition reflects a commitment to ensuring that no worker faces workplace harm without accountability, support, and meaningful pathways to justice.

CMR | Moral Injury & Systems  
Protect people. Not positions.