Workplace Psychological Harassment Prevention Act
An Act to prevent psychological harassment in the workplace and to amend the Canada Labour Code
This bill is from the 39th Parliament, 2nd session, which ended in September 2008.
This bill is from the 39th Parliament, 2nd session, which ended in September 2008.
Brian Masse NDP
Introduced as a private member’s bill. (These don’t often become law.)
Outside the Order of Precedence (a private member's bill that hasn't yet won the draw that determines which private member's bills can be debated), as of Nov. 28, 2007
(This bill did not become law.)
This is from the published bill.
This enactment defines psychological harassment and abuse of power, requires the federal public administration to provide its employees with employment free of psychological harassment, and requires every employee of the public service of Canada to disclose behaviour that is contrary to these principles.
The enactment also provides for the exercise of recourse, the imposition of fines and the taking of remedial action when an employee who has made a disclosure is subjected to retaliation.
Lastly, the enactment amends the Canada Labour Code to prohibit acts of psychological harassment.
All sorts of information on this bill is available at LEGISinfo, an excellent resource from Parliament. You can also read the full text of the bill.
Bill numbers are reused for different bills each new session. Perhaps you were looking for one of these other C-487s: