It's time to review all "Dignity at Work" policies
and introduce updated "Anti-Bullying" policies to comply
with the recently published "Code of Practice for
Employers and Employees on the Prevention and Resolution of
Bullying at Work" ("the Code"). The Code
repeals the previous Health and Safety Authority (HSA) and
Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) Codes of Practice and
introduces new procedures for the management of workplace
bullying.
What is Bullying?
There is no change to the definition of bullying that has been
in use since 2001:
Workplace bullying is repeated inappropriate behaviour,
direct or indirect, whether verbal, physical or otherwise,
conducted by one or more persons against another or others, at the
place of work and/or in the course of employment, which could be
reasonably regarded as undermining the individual's to dignity
at work. An isolated incident of the behaviour described in
the definition may be an affront to dignity at work,
