A invoice towards office bullying filed on the House of Representatives has included spreading rumors and false data as a type of the offense.
House Bill 8446, authored by ACT-CIS party-list Representative Jocelyn Tulfo and her son, Quezon City Representative Ralph Wendell Tulfo, consists of “offering, publishing, distributing, circulating, or spreading rumors, false news and information, gossip about, or any act against or directed against an employer, a co-employee, or any person with whom he/she has professional relations or dealings” as a type of workplace bullying.
The invoice defines workplace bullying as something that “infringes on the rights of another at work premises” or something that locations the worker “in reasonable fear of physical or emotional harm or damage to his property creating a hostile environment for the employee; or materially and substantially disrupting the work process or the orderly operation of an institution or business.”
Also included within the proposed prohibited acts are any undesirable bodily contact, utilizing foul language and name-calling, gender-based bullying, and cyberbullying.
These embody disrespecting and devaluing a co-worker, exercising administration by threats and intimidation, stealing credit score and taking unfair benefit of a co-worker, and stopping entry to office, profession, and workplace alternatives to a co-worker.
The invoice calls on all authorities and non-government places of work to undertake insurance policies to handle workplace bullying.
“Adopting policies against bullying in the workplace would ensure every Filipino worker’s right to just and humane working conditions, mutual respect amongst employees and their employers, and dignity in their work will be observed,” the authors stated. —Tina Panganiban-Perez/KBK, GMA Integrated News
Source: www.gmanetwork.com
