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The bill requires the Department of Labor to address workplace violence in health care, social service, and other related sectors.. Additionally the Department of Labor must issue an interim occupational safety and health standard that requires certain employers to take actions to protect workers and other personnel from workplace violence.
The anger-focus model: 1) characterizes workplace violence according to the focus of the perpetrator; 2) allows for the gathering of separate statistics for object-focused crime and non-object-focused crime; and 3) shows that domestic violence, school shootings, terrorist activities, and non-object violence that occurs in the workplace are ...
However, violence does occur in the context of industrial disputes. When violence has been committed by, or in the name of, the union, it has tended to be narrowly focused upon targets which are associated with the employer. [1] Violence was greater in conflicts in which there was a question of whether union recognition would be extended. [1]
Workplace aggression is a specific type of aggression which occurs in the workplace. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Workplace aggression is any type of hostile behavior that occurs in the workplace. [ 3 ] [ 1 ] [ 4 ] It can range from verbal insults and threats to physical violence, and it can occur between coworkers, supervisors, and subordinates.
Anti-union violence is physical force intended to harm union officials, union organizers, union members, union sympathizers, or their families. It is most commonly used either during union organizing efforts, or during strikes.
Workplace Violence Strategies and Research Needs - NIOSH Publication Number 2006-144: Author: NIOSH: Software used: Adobe InDesign CS2 (4.0) Conversion program: Adobe PDF Library 7.0: Encrypted: no: Page size: 612 x 791 pts; 612 x 792 pts (letter) Version of PDF format: 1.6
The acceptance of violence as a legitimate response to imagined threats and perceived injustice goes a long way in explaining the prevalence of lone-wolf terrorism.
The Violence and Harassment Convention, formally the Convention concerning the elimination of violence and harassment in the world of work is a convention to "recognize the right of everyone to a world of work free from violence and harassment, including gender-based violence and harassment". [2]