The state of New Jersey is considering a bill that would allow employees to sue their bosses if they felt they were not treated the way they wanted to be. We all know that there are bosses out there who bully and harass their employees.
Some claim that managers with such abysmal people skills are promoted up the ranks by companies who are short-staffed and must ‘make do.’ The feeling, evidently, is ‘He knows our business and has been with us for years and years: SURELY he’d do OK as a manager. Regretully, however, this isn’t always the case.
However, mean-spirited people have been around since time eternal. Isn’t this just another manifestation of the litigious society in which we live? But wait: is it really necessary to sue your boss when you can just blog about him on the Internet? Thanks to a proliferation of web sites an employee is now able to alleviate his frustrations and ‘vent’ about his boss’ pititful on-the-job behavior.
The New Jersey bill would give an employee the right to seek a whopping $25,000 in damages if he can prove that his employer had created an “abusive” work environment. And, it doesn’t stop in New Jersey, either. Measures of a similar type are being considered as well in New York, Vermont , Washington and California. Perhaps one of the greatest difficulties facing such legislation, however is the definition of what precisely constitutes an ABUSIVE WORK ENVIRONMENT.
Is this initiative just the modern version of the labor unions?? Time will tell. Until such time as we see these laws on the books, the best thing for you to do if you are subjected to unacceptable behavior on the part of you boss is to simply find a new job!
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