Ireland joins International Global Workplace Bullying Awareness Week - Founder Linda Crockett

This year GLOBAL Leaders - founder of this global event Dr Gary Namie, USA and Linda Crockett, Canada , founder of the International Event will lead Workplace Bullying Awareness Week. The mission of this event is to promote psychologically safe workplaces for all.

This year Ireland's VOICE against PSYCHOLOGICAL ABUSE including Coercive & Controlling behaviours is growing. This event is now supported by Safeguarding Ireland, NEWKD, Kerry Women's Centre, Haven Horizons, Adapt Kerry, Women's Refuge and SICAP (The Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme).

Wed, Oct 16th 2pm GMT. Ireland's Time

Workplace bullying awareness week Ireland’s joins Global Event, 16th October 2024 (free event on line). Link will be poster nearer to 16th October 2024

The genesis for this awareness campaign came from Linda Crockett who joined Gary Namie (founder of the USA Workplace Bullying Institute) and his “Freedom from Workplace Bullying Week” 10 years ago. The Workplace Bullying Awareness Week seeks to broaden awareness of this very important workplace issue and its mission is to promote psychologically safe workplaces for all.

Six years ago, Linda invited others around the globe to join in the advocacy of making Workplace Bullying Awareness Week a world- wide event. What better way is there than the power of world energy building awareness of this epidemic! Join us! Raise awareness and help de-stigmatic this devastating and unjust work practice.

Please join us for our annual event leading Workplace Bullying Psychological Abuse information and resources to STOP Workplace Abuse.

Workplace Mobbing

By far, the most devastating form of psychological terrorism in the workplace is mobbing. Constantinescu (2014) states that workplace mobbing is the intense systematic psychological harassment of an individual in the workplace, carried out by one or more colleagues or superiors, using weapons that include gossip, intimidation, humiliation, discrediting, and isolation. Psychological abuse is a persistent pattern of oppressive, pervasive and complex traits of psychological abuse which manifests through subtle overt and covert mechanisms. To date, there has been little agreement on the evidence that organisations protect employees from psychological abuse; there is an absence of proper management interventions (Leymann, 1993). Domestic psychological abuse – coercive control is evidence-based and is now a criminal offence.

Judy Carmody states that psychological abuse inc coercive and controlling behaviours is a complex challenge in organisational settings, lacking an established definition, laws, leadership, trauma-informed investigations and mitigation responses to the risks and dangers of psychological abuse. 

Ireland's laws to protect employees in the workplace 2024

I sent a request to the WRC to forward me a list of laws in Ireland to protect employees in the workplace including all laws pertaining to psychological harassment and violence. Please find the following response.

Dear Sir/Madam

Thank you for contacting the Workplace Relations Commission.

Please find the following information in relation to your query.

Code of Practice for Employers and Employees on the Prevention and Resolution of Bullying at Work - Workplace Relations Commission

https://www.workplacerelations.ie/en/what_you_should_know/codes_practice/code-of-practice-for-employers-and-employees-on-the-prevention-and-resolution-of-bullying-at-work/

(See attached file: code-of-practice-for-employers-and-employees-on-the-prevention-and-resolution-of-bullying-at-work.pdf)(See attached file: issues-at-work.pdf)

Code of Practice on Victimisation - Workplace Relations Commission

https://www.workplacerelations.ie/en/what_you_should_know/codes_practice/cop5/

NK$$$$$XML (irishstatutebook.ie)EMPLOYMENT EQUALITY ACT 1998 (CODE OF PRACTICE) (HARASSMENT) ORDER 2012

https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2012/si/208/made/en/pdf

(See attached file: pdf.pdf)(See attached file: Codes-of-Practice-Sexual-Harassment-FA_Digital.pdf)

Industrial Relations - Workplace Relations Commission

https://www.workplacerelations.ie/en/what_you_should_know/industrial_relations/

I trust this will be of assistance. If you require information on general employment rights, you may find the information you need on our website at

www.workplacerelations.ie.

This information may be useful to you where you are considering making a complaint for hearing by an Adjudicator. It is worth noting that further to the Supreme Court judgment Zalewski [2021] IESC 24 the WRC can no longer guarantee hearings will be in private or that decisions would be anonymised.

©No part of this article may be reproduced without prior permission of the author Judith Carmody. The post can be reposted in full giving credit to the author's work.

This survey is part of a research dissertation for a Master of Arts in Leadership in Workplace Health and Wellbeing, Technical University of the Shannon, Ireland.

Content Warning: Please be advised, this article might mention trauma-related topics that include abuse, which could be triggering to the reader. The con­tent pro­vided and in any linked mate­ri­als is not intended and should not be con­strued as med­ical or legal advice. If the reader of this material has a med­ical or legal con­cern, he or she should con­sult with an appropriately health care provider or legal advisor.