Bullying is a Health Hazard
The following types of behaviour, usually occuring as part of a pattern, may be considered forms of bullying
- Verbal Abuse: Offensive language and inappropriate or insulting comments
- Exclusion: Excluding or isolating employees
- Underwork: Assigning meaningless tasks unrelated to the job
- Overwork: Giving employees impossible assignments
- Undermining: Deliberately withholding information that is necessary for effective work performance, supplying incorrect information or inadequate training
- Unreasonable Rostering: Deliberately changing work rosters to inconvenience particular employees
- Spying: Constant intensive surveillance or monitoring
- Derision: Constant and unjustified criticism of a worker's performance or abilities
- Petty Rules: Imposing restrictive and petty work rules
- Bad-mouthing
- Humbug: Unreasonable administrative sanctions, such as the late payment of wages or undue delays in the processing of applications for training and/or leave
- Belittling: Giving workers no say about how their job is done
- Threats: Open or implied threats of dismisal or disciplinary action
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