Domestic Violence
Bill 168 requires the employer to be aware of domestic violence and
its potential impact on the workplace. While often originating in the
home, can significantly impact workplace safety and the productivity of victims as well as co-workers.
“Domestic Violence” is defined as abuse committed against an
adult or fully emancipated minor. Abuse is the intentional reckless
attempt to cause bodily injury, sexual assault, threatening behavior,
harassment, or stalking, or making annoying phone calls to a person
who is in any of the following relationships:
 Spouse or former spouse;
 Domestic partner or former domestic partner;
 Cohabitant or former cohabitant and or other household
members;
 A person with whom the victim is having, or has had, a dating
or engagement relationship.
 A person with whom the victim has a child.
The employer must do everything reasonable to provide a protected
and safe place for us to work. We’ve all heard the term “going
postal” This refers to an incident in August 1986 when a US postal
employee named Patrick Sherrill shot 14 people to death before
shooting himself in an Edmond, Oklahoma post office.
In a 2000 Postal Service Commission report, the phrase “going postal”
was called a “myth” because employees in other industries were
more likely to be victims of workplace homicide than postal workers.
The threat of violence and injury on the job involve issues creating
workplace stress such as…
workplace bullying, workplace domestic violence, intimidation,
verbal and emotional abuse, stalking.