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Using terms like crybaby isnt especially helpful when discussing bullying victims, is it?
I think what is pretty clear from a lot of comments here is that this is an issue that is taken very seriously at all in the States - so I applaud the people who are raising it.
Bullying can destroy people, literally. There is a balance, like everything - no one wants a world were employers are held to ransom by the threat of fake claims, and I for one dont want a world were people can be utterly crushed and have no protection. Not everyone CAN just walk out, and not everyone can stand up for themselves.
A duty of care exists even in a place so capitalist as in America. A factory has a duty to protect the health and safety of employee's by not having dangerous machinery that they dont maintain and then ends up maining someone, by making sure that processes for safe working practives are in place and monitored... protecting people's mental and emotional health is not a different thing to me.
if "Mom and Pop" make their store a fire trap and dont install fire escapes, alarms, extinguishers, and a fire starts and someone is badly wounded or killed - quite rightly they are held liable. So they should if they bully an employee and emotionally damage them. With any case there is room for matters of degree and interpretation.
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