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RSS FeedsLong-term care workers at `breaking point´ due to violence, harassment, sexual assault on job, poll finds
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26 march 2019 11:25:40

 
Long-term care workers at `breaking point´ due to violence, harassment, sexual assault on job, poll finds
(The Star Toronto Raptors)
 


Long-term care workers face “constant” violence on the job, with 80 per cent reporting first-hand experience with physical assault in the workplace, according to a new poll.The survey of more than 1,000 long-term care workers in Ontario found almost half of respondents experienced physical violence such as pushing or hitting on a daily or weekly basis. Some 63 per cent said they had faced sexual harassment at least once on the job and 43 per cent said they’d experienced sexual assault.“It’s hard to imagine another environment in which this kind of level of violence would be tolerated,” said Michael Hurley, president of the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions. “When you look carefully at the numbers, it’s clear that there are verbal and sexual and racialized assaults going on constantly in these workplaces.”The survey was conducted by Toronto-based firm Public Polling for the Canadian Union of Public Employees, which represents 25,000 long-term care workers across the province. Those polled included 1,294 personal support workers and registered practical nurses in Ontario long-term care homes represented by 26 different CUPE locals. The survey had a 95 per cent confidence level. Sue Moore, who has worked in the long-term care sector for 15 years as a registered practical nurse and is also president of CUPE 3014, said workers often receive little preparation for the violence they encounter on the job.“There’s no time spent in school telling you that these are things that can occur while working in health care,” she said. “It’s more or less you get out on the floor, and that’s when you start experiencing it.”Despite the high levels of workplace violence reported by those surveyed, the poll found that 53 per cent of respondents had never filed a formal report with their employer.Moore believes that is because workplace violence is often treated like “part of the job& ...


 
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