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Workplace bullying seems to be in the news this week – can’t think why.
As an employment lawyer I have a problem with bullying. Let me rephrase that. I find it difficult to talk about bullying because there is no legal concept of bullying as such. An employee can’t put ‘workplace bullying’ on an employment tribunal claim form and expect to get anywhere.Proving that you have been bullied at work – whatever that means – does not in itself mean that you have any legal claims at all.
I think I first remember hearing the phrase ‘its political correctness gone mad’ in a spitting image sketch in the 1980s. I can’t remember what the sketch was about – but the Daily Mail was mentioned.
As an employment lawyer who spends a lot of time training managers on discrimination issues, I know that ‘PCGM’ features strongly in many of their initial concerns about getting to grips with discrimination law and I hope that the training I give helps to dispel some of the myths that have grown up around what, I insist, is a very common sense area of the law.
The Lords Committee Stage of the Equality Bill has been making rapid progress and barring something dramatic happening it is clear that the Bill does now have time to make it onto the statute books. A number of amendments have been made – perhaps most notably a measure making it unlawful for employers to ask employees about their health prior to offering them a job unless the employer can show that the question is necessary to ensure safety, make adjustments or ensure that the employee is capable of performing key tasks.
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