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December 26, 2008 at 8:38 pm |
12/26/2008
Subject: NJ ‘Healthy Workplace Act’ for Productive Employees
Professor David Yamada’s Research Paper 08-37 has a great source of information on this subject; the best that I have read to date. You can get this information at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1301554. This will bring-up SSRN, click on the free download, and then click on capital letters SSRN, New York, USA.
I am sure you have noticed in the last five years how what was right is now wrong; and, what was wrong is now right. Employers don’t seem to be aware of this ‘silent epidemic’ that is going on in the workforce all across the nation.
I am speaking out; because, I found myself among the 54 Million American, nationwide, I had to deal with this for three and a half years until my health was greatly affected. This is after I followed our company protocol.
I enjoyed working there for ten years and I was a dedicated, above-average employee. I believe most of the time companies sweep-it-under the rug as a ‘personality conflict.’ That can’t be further from the truth, as Professor Yamada states in his Research Paper 08-37. I would never have expected that an employer would allow a valuable employee who is an asset to a company be treated in this manner; this borders on criminal. The lower employee is the one who gets kicked to the curb; and, the sickness goes-on to another employee; because this ‘empowers’ that individual.
The current labor laws do not include protection for productive NJ employees!
The New Jersey Legislature can stop this epidemic by voting, yes, for this ‘Healthy Workplace Act.’ New Jersey will be the 13th state to enact this law.
This is a win/win for New Jersey Employers/Employees; and, the State.
Sincerely,
Fran Gray
Post Note: I will be e-mailing the above letter to the NJ Legislators in the next few days.
December 26, 2008 at 9:03 pm |
Fran, thank you for your post and for your advocacy. I owe you a phone call as well — this is among the projects I’ve been planning while not returning messages!
Please keep up the good work. You’re making a difference.
May 8, 2009 at 12:48 pm |
Ms. Gray -
You have told my story – except, in my case, it was 12 years before the abuse started. Six calendar years later, and many more in Drora years, the wounds are still as fresh as if it happened yesterday.
Thanks – drora kemp.
December 30, 2008 at 8:54 am |
Congratulations on this Blog and all you are doing to help people who lack power at work. You are making the world a better place.
Happy New Year,
Susan Grover
December 30, 2008 at 9:29 am |
Susan, thank you for the kind wishes, and Happy New Year to you, too. (Folks, Susan is one of the good souls in legal academe.)
-David
January 8, 2009 at 10:29 pm |
Hey, David! I posted an announcement about your blog to my own shared blog. You can see the post at http://outofthejungle.blogspot.com/2009/01/new-blog-on-workplace-issues.html#links Our blog is aimed at law librarians, so that’s the group I pitched the post to. I suspect your readership probably already is larger than my small one. Great blog! I am enjoying the combination of practical advice & info links with your musing essays. Good work. You are really pouring it out! Congrats!
Betsy McKenzie
January 8, 2009 at 10:35 pm |
Betsy, thanks for your comment! I’m happy if the law librarians visit! The readership for this blog remains modest but growing — roughly 2,000 page views for the first three weeks, according to the reports I receive from WordPress. Best, David
January 9, 2009 at 8:25 pm |
Dear Dr. David Yamada,
I had to mention your Research Paper 08-37. Your Research Paper should be sent to all Company Human Resources Department.
Following was printed in the Courier-Post Newspaper in Camden, NJ for the Southern New Jersey Area, today, 1/9/2009, to urge voters to contact their district assmebly to vote, yes when this bill is presented. The NJ State Legislature is expected to vote on the Healthy Workplace Act, A-1551, Sponsored by Assemblyworman Linda Greenstein, in January or February, 2009.
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By this e-mail, I would like to request this to be printed in the Courier-Post Newspaper in Southern New Jersey Area. Editorial Page, Opinion Section.
Printed on 01/09/2009, Editorial Page, Courier Post Newspaper. The ( * ) is what the newspaper edited out.
Subject: Justice in the Workplace (Courier changed to Employee bullying)
Employee bullying:
There are employers who are not aware of a silent epidemic against productive employees that is going on in their own company that is affecting fifty-four (54) million Americans *(in New Jersey and across the nation)*. The epidemic is coming from certain managers and coworkers who do not respect productive employees because they don’t want to be held accountable for their non-productivity. I am speaking out; because, *(I found myself among the 54 million Americans nationwide; and,)* I don’t think productive employees should go through what me and many other employees went and are going through *(in NJ and across the nation;)* This is definitely a Health Issue. Professor, David Yamada, Suffock University Law School in Boston has a 13-page Research Paper 08-37 at http://ssrn.com/abstract=1301554.
The *(New Jersey)* state Legislature can help stop this epidemic by voting, yes, for this Healthy Workplace Act, A-1551 expected to come up for a vote in January or February 2009. Please contact your district legislature by mail, e-mail, phone, if you want to be a ‘protected’ productive employee.
This will be cost affective for New Jersey Employers, Employees, and the State of New Jersey.
Fran Gray
Runnemede, NJ
January 10, 2009 at 8:27 am |
Fran, thank you for your latest comment, and for your mention of the article. Your efforts are helping to inform others about workplace bullying, what it does to people, and what we can do about. You will be pleased to know that the article you recommended has been a popular download on the Social Science Research Network database during the past six weeks, appearing in the top ten downloads among recently posted articles in some 16 categories dealing with management, leadership, and law. Take care, David