The Healthy and Safe Workplace Act

HB 4363 The Healthy and Safe Workplace Act

West Virginia 2016 Regular Session

The Healthy and Safe Workplace Act
HB-4363


About HB-4363

The purpose of this bill is to create a new cause of action to deter workplace bullying. This bill makes it an unlawful employment practice to subject an employee to an abusive work environment that exists when the defendant, acting with malice, subjects an employee to abusive conduct so severe that it causes tangible harm to the employee. Further, this bill makes it an unlawful employment practice to retaliate in any manner against an employee who has made a charge, testified, assisted or participated in any manner against an employee who has made a charge, testified, assisted or participated in any manner in an investigation or proceeding regarding bullying in the workplace.

  

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Filed For Introduction

02/02/2016

To Industry And Labor Then Judiciary

02/02/2016

Introduced In House

02/02/2016

To House Industry And Labor

02/02/2016

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