THE INTEGRATION OF BANKING AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS: THE NEED FOR REGULATORY REFORM

688 JOURNAL OF LAW AND POLICY bullying can impose long- and short-term costs on employers resulting from lost productivity and l ...

IS LITIGATION YOUR FINAL ANSWER? 689 at least half of all bullying is woman-on-woman.^66 Even though the Supreme Court has ruled ...

690 JOURNAL OF LAW AND POLICY ineffective because (1) its monetary sanctions are not heavy enough to compel employers to prevent ...

IS LITIGATION YOUR FINAL ANSWER? 691 Under the proposed modified tort of Intentional Infliction of Workplace Abuse (“IIWA”), the ...

692 JOURNAL OF LAW AND POLICY backed up against the wall.^85 Believing that the surgeon intended to “smack the [shit] out of [hi ...

IS LITIGATION YOUR FINAL ANSWER? 693 III. THE HEALTHY WORKPLACE BILL A. The Model Act In 2000, Professor Yamada proposed a model ...

694 JOURNAL OF LAW AND POLICY makes it unlawful for an employer to subject an employee to an “abusive work environment,” defined ...

IS LITIGATION YOUR FINAL ANSWER? 695 employer’s legitimate business interests, such as a termination or demotion based on [the] ...

696 JOURNAL OF LAW AND POLICY after, legislatures in Oklahoma,^122 Hawaii,^123 Massachusetts,^124 Oregon,^125 and Washington^126 ...

IS LITIGATION YOUR FINAL ANSWER? 697 scope of employees who would be protected under the law.^128 Although not every bill introd ...

698 JOURNAL OF LAW AND POLICY business decisions.^134 First, she argues that anti-workplace- bullying legislation will make empl ...

IS LITIGATION YOUR FINAL ANSWER? 699 former employer.^141 These critics argue that enacting the Healthy Workplace Bill would ess ...

700 JOURNAL OF LAW AND POLICY Alternatively, lawmakers could preserve the model act’s current definitions but create a legislati ...

IS LITIGATION YOUR FINAL ANSWER? 701 employment discrimination law, argued that the law gave “little notice” of what constituted ...

702 JOURNAL OF LAW AND POLICY resolution.^154 In recent decades, courts and federal agencies have increasingly favored ADR proce ...

IS LITIGATION YOUR FINAL ANSWER? 703 Note will primarily focus on the two most commonly used ADR processes to resolve employment ...

704 JOURNAL OF LAW AND POLICY pay mediator fees, attorney’s fees, and costs of acquiring a meeting room, the shorter duration of ...

IS LITIGATION YOUR FINAL ANSWER? 705 exhibits.^170 After the proceeding, parties may request a transcript of the hearing and fil ...

706 JOURNAL OF LAW AND POLICY offer court-connected arbitration programs for mandatory and voluntary arbitration hearings.^178 A ...

IS LITIGATION YOUR FINAL ANSWER? 707 of its antidiscrimination claims in federal court.^183 One reason that the EEOC files so fe ...