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Workplace Violence Prevention for Health Care and Social Service Workers Act

Floor Speech

By: Al Green
By: Al Green
Date: April 16, 2021
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Employment and Affirmative Action Health and Health Care

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Mr. GREEN of Texas. Madam Speaker, whatever employers are doing in the main is not enough. Workplace violence is the third leading cause of job death. Whatever they are doing is not enough.

Twenty percent of registered nurses in one survey reported an increase in workplace violence. Whatever they are doing is not enough.

It is not unreasonable to ask people to have a plan to protect employees. It is not unreasonable to ask them to enforce that plan. And it is not unreasonable to provide cover for those who report these workplace violence incidents in the form of protection from retaliation from reporting. It is just not enough.

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