ABSTRACT
The enactment of legal protections against workplace bullying has lagged behind other developments designed to prevent and respond to this form of mistreatment. However, in nations around the world, we are seeing greater acknowledgment that law and public policy should respond to the harm posed by workplace bullying. This has manifested itself in an expanding list of enacted and proposed statutes, ordinances, regulations, policies and common law provisions that apply to workplace bullying and related behaviours. Accordingly, this chapter will examine these developments by looking at central themes concerning bullying and the law and surveying a representative sampling of legal and policy responses from an international perspective. As illustrative examples, it will highlight legal initiatives in Australia, Canada, Japan, Sweden, the UK, and the US.
