An employer can provide a great deal of protection from
workplace violence just by a well designed job application, interview, criminal background check, and past employment and education verification process.
Not exact matches
What happened to her was part of gender - based
violence and it's systemic, not
just in our society but also in our
workplaces.
The Canadian Labour Congress has
just released preliminary findings of a cross-Canada survey on domestic
violence: more than a third of those surveyed had suffered domestic assault at some time in their lives, and of those currently experiencing it, more than half continue to be abused in or near their
workplaces.
Now its
just «
workplace violence.»
Perhaps there were more acts of
violence in schools,
workplaces, and communities before Columbine in 1999 and the news at the time
just didn't pick up on them?
It was the first piece of legislation that actually compelled employers to perform risk assessments of potential
violence in the
workplace (all
violence, not
just sexual
violence), institute programs and policies for
workplace violence and harassment (all harassment, not
just sexual), give training to employees with respect to both
violence and harassment, and — most importantly — develop specific procedures to enable both the reporting and investigation of employee complaints of harassment.
With negligent hiring lawsuits one of the fastest growing areas of employment litigation, conducting due diligence on new hires is critical since
just one «bad hire» can lead to fraud, embezzlement,
workplace violence and result in a legal and financial nightmare.
Violence in a Realtor's
workplace should be recognized as a serious occupational hazard and not
just as something that comes with the territory (of making good money).