Our mission
Make this a crime.
Physical violence is a crime. Theft is a crime. But the slow, calculated destruction of a human being through gossip, mobbing, gaslighting, and engineered isolation? In almost every country on earth, it is treated as a personality conflict. Our long-term goal is to change that, in workplaces, in policy, and in the public conscience.
The legal record so far
A handful of countries have already made the case that psychological workplace harm deserves consequences. That precedent is the foundation we build on.
Sweden
Among the first countries to address workplace bullying in regulation, via AFS 1993:17, an ordinance on "Victimization at Work" issued by the national labor authority under the Work Environment Act, not a standalone statute.
United Kingdom
Protection from Harassment Act 1997 creates a civil and criminal wrong of harassment, later used as the legal basis for workplace bullying claims.
Source: legislation.gov.uk
United Kingdom
In Green v DB Group Services (UK) Ltd, the High Court finds a "deliberate and concerted campaign of bullying" and awards a bullied employee damages reported at over £800,000.
Source: BAILII: Green v DB Group Services (UK) Ltd [2006] EWHC 1898 (QB)
France
The Social Modernization law (Loi n° 2002-73) introduces criminal and civil liability for "moral harassment" (harcèlement moral) at work, now codified in the Labour Code.
Ireland
Not standalone legislation: a code of practice on workplace bullying is declared under the Industrial Relations Act 1990 in 2002, followed by a revised Health and Safety Authority code in 2007.
Quebec, Canada
The Act respecting labour standards becomes one of the first laws in North America to prohibit "psychological harassment" at work by name.
Source: LégisQuébec: Act respecting labour standards, s. 81.18
Ontario, Canada
Bill 168 amends the Occupational Health and Safety Act (Part III.0.1) to add explicit employer duties around workplace violence and workplace harassment.
Further reading: Legal aspects of workplace bullying
Where we're starting
We are not a law firm, a lobbying group, or a licensed clinical practice. Anti Toxic People starts smaller than that, and more useful right now: giving the behaviors a name, sourced to real research, so the people living through them stop mistaking a documented pattern for a personal failing. That's the same groundwork every jurisdiction on the timeline above needed before its law could be written: a shared vocabulary and a public record that this is a real, recurring harm, not an isolated personality conflict.
Name it
Sourced Field Guide entries, growing steadily, each traceable to a real study, book, or legal case, not invented terminology.
Document it
Concrete, practical techniques (contemporaneous records, the grey rock method, knowing when to escalate) for building your own record, whether or not you ever go further with it.
Track the record
The legal timeline above is a living list. As more countries and cases set precedent, this page will grow with them.
This is early, and it is one person's project, not a funded institution.
If that changes, it will be because enough people found this useful enough to say so. Following along costs nothing and commits you to nothing else.
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