Ensuring Respect at Work: Tools for Promoting Safety and Inclusion
FREE Public Presentation Series: September 8, 2016

September 5 to 11, 2016 has been declared Respectful Workplace Week in the City of Fredericton. To highlight this, the Workplace Violence and Abuse Team of the Muriel McQueen Fergusson Centre for Family Violence Research is hosting a series of FREE public talks at the Fredericton Public Library in Chickadee Hall on Thursday, September 8. All are welcome. Refreshments will be provided for morning and afternoon break. For more information and to register visit: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/ensuring-respect-at-work-tools-for-promoting-safety-and-inclusion-tickets-27003155164

Lack of respect at work can lead to workplace bullying and other forms of harassment and discrimination. We hope you will join us for these talks that will help to raise awareness of how to prevent bullying and ensure respect at work.

Speakers Include:

Keynote: 10:15am – 11:15am
“Would you tell me please which way I ought to go from here…” responding to workplace bullying
Susan Coldwell, MThs, MT
Coordinator, Bully-Free Workplaces Program
Nova Scotia Government and General Employees Union
http://nsgeu.ca/nsgeu-bully-free-workplaces/

11:30am – 12:30pm
Safer Spaces: Ensuring justice and inclusion for LGBTQ colleagues and employees
Erin Fredericks, PhD
Assistant Professor, Sociology
LGBTQIA+ Advisor
St. Thomas University

1:30pm – 2:30pm
Racial discrimination and bullying in the workplace: Aboriginal Peoples in Canada deserve better
Anthea Plummer, MPhil Student
Research Associate, Urban Aboriginal Knowledge Network Atlantic Research Centre

2:45pm – 3:45pm
The social workplace: Exploring how relationships at work influence employees and organizations for better and for worse
Emily Read, RN, CPT, PhD
Assistant Professor
University of New Brunswick Faculty of Nursing