Contribute to a survey on work-life balance
...and highlight the effect bullying at work has on your emotional well-being:
http://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/html/content/survey.cfm
Lifting the lid on bullying
... in New Zealand: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?thesection=employment&thesubsection=&storyID=3007012
Spokane employee wins discrimination case
In Robel v. Roundup Corp Washington Supreme Court finds that employees can claim hostile work environment based upon disability
under Washington Law: http://www.lanepowell.com/pressroom/newsletters/detail.asp?xnltypeid=6&nlid=351
Walmart under the spotlight for poor employment record
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/134599503_walmart20.html
http://www.ksworkbeat.org/Issues/Walmart_s_Opinon_of_Union_Memb/Santa_Puts_Walmart_On_His_Naug/santa_puts_walmart_on_his_naug.html
http://www.ufcw.org/worker/page.cfm?subsection_id=143
IBM takes action against bullying
Bullying is the antithesis of a healthy business climate, says IBM: http://www.startribune.com/stories/535/3582435.html
UK loses 40 million working days annually due to stress, illness and injury
The TUC's John Monks warns that "Britain is becoming a 'sickie nation' because of the stresses and strains of
the modern workplace: http://www.tuc.org.uk/h_and_s/tuc-5982-f0.cfm
GMB union calls for law on stress
Work related stress rates double since 1990: http://www.gmb.org.uk/press_office/display.asp?id=202
Insurance worker awarded six-figure sum for stress
In a case reminiscent of Walker v. Northumberland County Council,
an employee receives compensation for two stress breakdowns: http://www.msf.org.uk/cgi-bin/news/db.cgi?db=default&uid=default&ID=313&view_records=1&ww=1
Company fined for Health and Safety breaches
...after an overworked driver fell asleep at the wheel: http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1403012002
Government 'squandering billions on compensation while cutting back on prevention,' says TUC
http://www.tuc.org.uk/h_and_s/tuc-6014-f0.cfm
Reducing work related psychological ill health and sickness absence: a
systematic literature review
Long hours worked, work overload, pressure, lack of control over work, lack of
participation in decision making, poor social support, unclear management and
work role .. sound familiar? http://oem.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/abstract/60/1/3?etoc
Workers who get a rough deal at work are more likely go sick
http://oem.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/abstract/60/1/27?etoc
NHS boss sacked for blowing the whistle on fiddled statistics
Ian Perkin, former finance director of St George's Hospital, Tooting, London
was sacked in December after working there for 16 years. His dismissal letter
criticised his "management style" despite having received a management
award six months earlier: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/2641657.stm
Scottish hospital penalised
Grampian University Hospitals NHS Trust, where almost half the nurses reported
experiencing bullying last year [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/1639176.stm]
has now been reprimanded by the Scottish Executive for failing to reduce junior
doctor hours: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/2592519.stm
Experienced and skilled older workers are retiring early from the NHS
A King's Fund report highlights heavy workloads, long hours and low morale: http://www.kingsfund.org.uk/eKingsFund/html/pr021212.html
and http://www.kingsfund.org.uk/eKingsFund/assets/applets/Great_to_be_Grey_summary.pdf
Find out what information UK employers and public bodies hold on you
http://www.guardian.co.uk/bigbrother/privacy/yourlife/story/0,12384,785938,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/bigbrother/privacy/statesurveillance/story/0,12382,811765,00.html
20% of doctors want to leave the profession
Falling job satisfaction and overwork take their toll: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/2623699.stm
33% of England's teachers expect to leave the profession
Teachers and lecturers have been my largest group of callers and enquirers since
I started in 1996. Now a new survey of UK teachers claims that badly-behaved
pupils, an excessive workload and too many government initiatives are damaging
morale and pushing more teachers out of the profession: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/2633099.stm
Swindon social services employee takes things further
Deborah Rees has set up a website to highlight the failings of Swindon Borough
Council (including the Council's zero star rating in a Joint Review): http://www.swindonboroughcouncil.com/
Birmingham City Council bullies sick employees back to work
But no mention of identifying the causes of sickness absence: http://icbirmingham.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100localnews/page.cfm?objectid=12489286&method=full&siteid=50002
TUC surveys reveal the true picture of workplace Britain
Stress, overwork, pollution, back strain, RSI and more are prevalent in the UK,
according to a survey of Health and Safety reps.
Scotland: http://www.tuc.org.uk/h_and_s/tuc-6041-f0.cfm
Yorkshire and Humberside: http://www.tuc.org.uk/h_and_s/tuc-6043-f0.cfm
Northern region: http://www.tuc.org.uk/h_and_s/tuc-6045-f0.cfm
Midlands: http://www.tuc.org.uk/h_and_s/tuc-6055-f0.cfm
London: http://www.tuc.org.uk/h_and_s/tuc-6057-f0.cfm
North West: http://www.tuc.org.uk/h_and_s/tuc-6059-f0.cfm
Wales: http://www.tuc.org.uk/h_and_s/tuc-6061-f0.cfm
South West: http://www.tuc.org.uk/h_and_s/tuc-6063-f0.cfm
South East: http://www.tuc.org.uk/h_and_s/tuc-6065-f0.cfm
New information chief must protect workers from snooping bosses
http://www.tuc.org.uk/law/tuc-6083-f0.cfm
Compensation culture myth quashed
Around 60% of compensation cases are going unclaimed according to research in
Canada: http://www.reutershealth.com/archive/2002/12/13/eline/links/20021213elin015.html
Only the rich can afford justice, allegedly
http://www.tuc.org.uk/h_and_s/tuc-6073-f0.cfm
Work-related stress: a guide for employers
From the Irish Health and Safety Agency (HSA): http://www.hsa.ie/pub/publications/stress.pdf
Britain second from bottom in European Scrooge list
One million people will be working on Christmas Day and three million will
receive no holiday pay: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2599991.stm
Calls intensify for Boston's Roman Catholic Cardinal Law to go
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/2559015.stm
Beleaguered Ripon Cathedral dean faces ultimatum
Autocratic Dean Methuen will face a charge of "conduct unbecoming a clerk
in holy orders" if he doesn't resign: http://www.ypn.co.uk/ViewArticleMore.aspx?SectionID=55&ArticleID=230059&Page=&ReturnUrl
ME to get proper attention
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is to be researched rather than rubbished at last: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/2581153.stm
Whistleblowers get recognition at last
FBI agent Coleen Rowley, Enron executive Sherron Watkins and WorldCom's Cynthia
Cooper are headlined "Persons of the Year" by Time magazine: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/2599523.stm
Accountability culture
Here's one league table where Britain is top: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2582263.stm
Macho military mentality prevents soldiers getting treatment
http://cbc.ca/stories/2002/12/17/stress_military021217
British Transport Police charged with long hours abuse
BTP handcuffs vital support staff to 'antiquated and scrooge-like' working
conditions: http://www.tssa.org.uk/news/press/nr021224.htm
Company ethos revealed through attitudes to bodily functions
Employees at Brown Brothers' meat processing factory in Kirkconnell,
Dumfriesshire have their pay docked every time they go to the toilet: http://www.sundaymail.co.uk/news/page.cfm?objectid=12502501&method=full&siteid=86024
UK Public and Commercial Services Union tells members to go home on time
But will PCS support members and fight cases where bullying employers retaliate?
http://www.pcs.org.uk/Templates/Internal.asp?NodeID=881938
Fathers struggle with work balance
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/2582061.stm
Institutionalised racism in colleges
...prevents black lecturers from gaining top positions: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/2621961.stm
Tough action' on hospital violence
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/2601399.stm
Widow demands Roy Castle's name is removed from charity
Concerns over how charity is run: http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_733762.html
Teeth grinding and workplace stress go together
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=571&ncid=751&e=2&u=/nm/20021230/hl_nm/stress_workplace_dc
Bully in sight: how to
predict, resist, challenge and combat workplace bullying
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: the invisible
injury, 2001 edition
Bullycide: death at playtime, an
exposé of child suicide cause by bullying
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