Having read numerous reports on the escalating of workplace harassment the line between it being a criminal offence is drawn because most victims have described mental health issues due to this and not a physical attack.
If we were to address legislation how would it appear?
yvon52

YVON 52... this might come as a shock...but.. IT IS a criminal offense.

The difficult part is proving it.

But the other side to that coin is.. "lazy or deceptive opportunistic work attitudes" should also be an offense.

I don't doubt that SOME bullying or harrassment is just perceived as that by people who simply want the money but not the work and resent being pushed a bit to do what they are paid to do!

But that's just part of the story. Yes of course there are genuine cases of bullying (if it's physical it's called ASSAULT).

KEY....SOLUTION.. "evidence"

'Assault' isn't just physical contact.

BOAZ_David
"The difficult part is proving it"
The difficult part is not to prove it, the difficult part is the authorities to be ready to protect the employees, even the migrants from bullying and harassment in the workplace and IT IS EVEN MORE DIFFICULT TO KEEP YOUR JOB WHEN YOU ASK FOR PROTECTION FROM THE AUTHORITIES.
I do not think that employers and authorities are ready to protect employees, especialy migrants, women, young people from bullying and harassment in the workplaces.
I know very well from experiences in Australia what means bullying and harassment in the workplace.
About the cost from it, it is huge, we will see at the end!
Antonios Symeonakis
ADELAIDE

Agreed, asking for help is often hard or even futile.

It's getting people to admit it and then stand up...they mostly won't... in part I think they are frightened of her or being seen as dobbers and the effort is to much to do something. They, the victim and the witness, can manage to live with it... so do... thinking, maybe it'll stop later etc.

It's a bullying and fear of acting on it.

Sorry that doesn't read clear:

"in part I think they are frightened of *her* or"

*her* was an example (my violent drunken neighbor) I had used and then decided to edit out...

Please read it as *it* being the the neighbor is the bully