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New Legal Rights For Employees of Nursing Homes

April 5, 2010 By 4 Comments
New Employee Rights for Nursing Home Employees

If you work for a nursing home, convalescent hospital, hospice care facility, or any other health care facility that accepts federal funds, the Health Care Reform bill gives YOU new legal rights, too. If you or any other employee reasonably suspects that a crime (like billing fraud) has taken place at your workplace, then you must report it to at least one law enforcement agency. What happens if you don’t? Up to $200,000 in fines. Evidently nursing home managers have been leery of reporting a resident who has abused or beaten another resident. Mangers don’t want the negative publicity, and don’t want law enforcement getting involved in what he nursing home views as “a medical issue”. So, if you are employed at nursing home you must report any action by a manager or … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, Retaliation, Uncategorized Tagged With: employee rights, health care reform, Hostile Workplace, retaliation at work
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Is This Retaliation or Discrimination? Q & A with Derek D.

January 18, 2010 By 1 Comment
ecamination time

Academy Member and book buyer Derek D. and I have been talking about how his bullying boss has gone over the line and started to infringe on Derek's employee rights.  Of course there is a long history, with the supervisor Trent taking a dislike to Derek back when Trent was himself a machine operator. After his promotion, Trent made comments that … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, Disability, Featured, FMLA Tagged With: Bully Boss, Disability Discrimination, employee rights, hostile work environment, Hostile Work Place, retaliation at work
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Bully Boss Survivor Marilyn Veincentotzs and the new Undercover H.R. Director (OnYourSide!)

November 30, 2009 By 5 Comments
Bully Boss Survivor Marilyn V

> A Survivor's Story: Marilyn Veincentotzs Episode 12 features an interview with Bully Boss survivor turned author Marilyn Veincentotzs.  Marilyn, who also goes by "Dr. Vee", learned from "Work Laws Exposed" how to fight back against a bullying boss.  Then she helped a good friend do the same thing.  Then she took her expertise in organizational psychology and wrote a book, "How Organizations Empower Bully Bosses: A criminal in the workplace." Personal Help With YOUR Work Problems In Episode 12 we also introduce a fantastic new resource for people who need help with responding to a bullying boss: The Undercover HR Person!  That's right, our forum stalwart and HR expert, "OnYourSide", is actually named Mary, and Mary is now available to help you with workplace issues too.  … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, Featured, Podcast, Retaliation Tagged With: abusive boss, Bully Boss, diabetes discrimination, employee rights, harassed at work, hostile work environment, Hostile Workplace, job harassment, retaliation at work
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Do You Know the 4 Key Steps to Taking Back Your Life from a Bully?

September 20, 2009 By 4 Comments
Learn to Take Back Your Life

Question: What are the four key steps to taking back your life from a bully? Answer: Listen to our interview with psychotherapist Dr. Ben Leichtling (pronounced Like-Ling).  Dr. Leichtling wrote a book about how to take back your life from a bully, and consults with companies on how to eliminate bullying from the workplace. Dr. Leichtling reveals in this interview his four key steps to breaking free of a bully.  He also gives invaluable advice on how to deal with the mental and physical trauma that bullies inflict.  This is one episode no one should miss. Podcast #11: Interview With Dr. Leichtling Dr. Leichtling was so generous with his time that we couldn't fit all of his helpful insights and ideas into the podcast, but it was simply too good "to leave on the cutting room … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, Featured, Podcast, Retaliation Tagged With: abusive boss, Bully Boss, diabetes discrimination, employee rights, harassed at work, hostile work environment, Hostile Workplace, job harassment, retaliation at work
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When Your Bully Boss is Behind Closed Doors, Do You Want to Know What the Lawyers Are Telling Him?

July 21, 2009 By 8 Comments
Listening In on Your Bully Boss

In Episode #9 the Undercover Lawyer (Curt K.) reveals 10 things that bosses do to their employees that cause hostile work environment lawsuits. (Podcast Player below). Even defense lawyers get mad at bad bosses, because bad bosses cause lawsuits.  This is explosive information that big business pays top dollar for; Curt himself regularly charges companies $1,000+ for "How Not to Get Sued" seminars that cover this same material!  But now you get it for free, plus Curt's explanation of how employees can use this information for their advantage. In the Quick Tip Curt covers how the new Federal Bailout Program includes money that you get right now if you've lost your job.  It's the COBRA subsidy, which requires your employer to pay 65% of COBRA premiums, so that you pay only 35% of the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, Featured, Hostile Work Environment & Workplace Harassment, Podcast Tagged With: abusive boss, Bully Boss, employee rights, harassed at work, hostile work environment, Hostile Workplace, job harassment, retaliation at work