Sue the Boss

In the continuing effort of Democrats everywhere to destroy jobs and increase work for their trial lawyer donors, eleven states are considering making it possible for employees to sue their bosses for being . . . bossy.  Okay, they aren't calling it that, but for "bullying."

Cliff Palefsky of San Francisco's McGuinn Hillsman & Palefsky, a plaintiffs attorney who represents employee rights, said the anti-bullying movement is long overdue.

"There have been too many times when those kinds of people [abusive bosses] have been hailed as decisive, strong, take-no-prisoner types. They somehow get glorified," Palefsky said.

Of course it's long over due.  After all, asbestos has pretty much run it's course.  Sexual harassment is probably getting less as people learn that harmless flirting is a multi-million dollar offense.  So now they need a new way to sue employers.

The states considering this boon to trail lawyer bank accounts (and thus Democrat campaign coffers) are:

Connecticut (Democrat controlled legislature), Hawaii (ditto), Kansas (Republican), Massachusetts (Democrat), Missouri (Republican), Montana (split), New Jersey (Democrat), New York (Democrat), Oklahoma (Republican), Oregon (Democrat) and Washington (Democrat).  Of the 11 states, eight are either Democrat controlled or split legislatures (one house Demo, one GOP).

This is asinine.  What the hell is "bullying"?  Well, of course, they define it:

Connecticut, for example, wants to outlaw "threatening, intimidating or humiliating" conduct by a boss or co-worker and would ban repeated insults and epithets. The proposal doesn't specify a penalty, but would only give workers the grounds to sue.

New York's anti-bullying legislation targets malicious conduct by supervisors that hurts employees either physically or psychologically. Mental health harm could include humiliation, stress, loss of sleep, severe anxiety and depression.

Threatening, like "do your job or you're fired"?  Intimidating like, oh, "do your job or you're fired"?  Humiliating like "do your job or you're fired"?  And New York would target psychological "harm"?  Stress, loss of sleep, anxiety and depression?  You could have the nicest boss in the world and still be stressed.  Who is going to define mental harm? 

Oh, yeah, an idiot jury. 

This is just a job security program for trial lawyers.  Especially when you consider that according to a poll:

44 percent of employees have worked for a supervisor or employer who they consider abusive

So if you run a business, 44% of your employees are about to sue you.  Then you'll be out of business and those employees won't have to worry about an abusive boss 'cause they'll be unemployed.