CLC, Western University Launch Nationwide Workplace Survey on Domestic Violence – continued from page 11
President of the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions (CFNU) says that one goal of the survey is to raise awareness among employers and workers about the impacts of domestic violence, before it is too late.
The survey is online and available in English and French until June 6, 2014. Any workers over the age of 15 are encouraged to complete the survey, whether or not they have personally experienced or witnessed domestic violence. The survey is completely anonymous and takes between 10 and 30 minutes to complete.
Click here for the survey:
http://fluidsurveys.com/s/dvatwork/. Read more
FRANCE HR Director Taken Hostage in Industrial Relations Dispute
Hundreds of employees at the plant in Amiens, northern France, reportedly hi-jacked a trade union meeting and barricaded the site‘s HR director, Bernard Glesser, and head of production, Michel Dheilly, in the room with a tractor tyre.
The Goodyear plant is due to close with the loss of more than 1,100 jobs and Franck Jurek of the CGT union told France‘s RTL radio: ―We want to go back to the negotiating table to seek a voluntary departure plan and see if someone will take it [the factory] over. If there‘s nobody, then [we want] a departure plan for everyone with an enormous amount of money,‖ he continued. ―We've lost all legal means of recourse, so now we're changing tack.‖
The factory in Amiens has had a tense industrial relations record while its future has been under threat, with Goodyear seeking a buyer or a shutdown for the past five years.
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WORKPLACE VIOLENCE NEWS (continued) Illinois Passes Workplace Violence Prevention Act Authorizing Employers to Seek Orders of Protection
In August, the Governor of Illinois signed the Workplace Violence Prevention Act, Public Act 98-0430, into law. The Act provides that an employer may seek an order of protection to prohibit further violence or threats of violence by a person if: (1) the employee has suffered unlawful violence or a credible threat of violence from the person; and (2) the unlawful violence has been carried out at the employee's place of work or the credible threat of violence can reasonably be constructed to be carried out at the employee's place of work by the person. Provides that an employer may obtain an order of protection under the Illinois Domestic Violence Act of 1986 if the employer: (1) files an affidavit that shows, to the satisfaction of the court, reasonable proof that an employee has suffered either unlawful violence or a credible threat of violence by the defendant; and (2) demonstrates that great or irreparable harm has been suffered, will be suffered, or is likely to be suffered by the employee.
The Act also provides that employer remedies under the Act are limited to an order of protection, but that nothing in the Act waives, reduces, or diminishes any other remedy available to an employer under any other mechanism.
Cases involving or growing out of a labor dispute governed by other State or federal law are excluded from coverage by the Act.
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