Mobbing: the bill presented to the Senate
Bullying at work? There is a lot of talk about it, but in Italy does not exist. At least not as a crime.
Despite various proposals, in fact, our country still lacks a law that regulates a case repeatedly denounced by trade unions and individual workers.
Bullying, in the literature, consists of persecutory behaviors adopted by superiors or colleagues, an extremely broad spectrum of behaviors that varies from demotion to psychological, physical and sexual violence. Defining it in a more precise way, beyond the academic disquisitions, is not possible, precisely because there is no normative reference.
To fill the gap, the senator from the Green/Left Alliance Tino Magni presented a bill aimed at introducing specific rules for the protection of male and female workers from moral and psychological harassment in the world of work.
The proposal (which sees colleagues Peppe De Cristofaro, Ilaria Cucchi, and Aurora Floridiai as co-signatories) fits in the wake of the European Parliament resolution no. 2001/2339 of 20 September 2001, which urges the Member States to review and, if necessary, “to complete their existing legislation in terms of combating against bullying and sexual harassment in the workplace, as well as to verify and standardize the definition of the case of ‘mobbing’, expressly underlining the responsibility of the Member States and of society as a whole for mobbing and violence in the workplace, recognizing this responsibility as the central point of a strategy to combat this phenomenon”.
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