The phrase "abusive workplace" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a work environment where employees are subjected to mistreatment, harassment, or bullying.
Example: "The company has been criticized for fostering an abusive workplace that negatively impacts employee morale and productivity."
Alternatives: "toxic work environment" or "hostile work setting".
"If it's an abusive workplace, money will keep people for a while, but eventually they'll be drawn away".
Trouble With Audits Factory monitoring companies have established a booming business in the two decades since Gap, Nike, Walmart and others were tarnished by disclosures that their overseas factories employed underage workers and engaged in other abusive workplace practices.
It originated in a battle against Intel, the giant semiconductor manufacturer, by Kourosh Kenneth Hamidi, known as Ken, who has spent eight years trying to rally employees at Intel, his former employer, to resist what he considers abusive workplace practices.
The second, which is more common, is "hostile environment," in which the conduct is so "severe or pervasive" that a reasonable person would experience it as creating an abusive workplace.
Factory monitoring companies have established a booming business in the two decades since Gap, Nike, Walmart and others were tarnished by disclosures that their overseas factories employed underage workers and engaged in other abusive workplace practices.
Department employees filed complaints about Benjamin in 2011 and 2012, saying he engaged in "profane, loud and abusive workplace conduct," according to a report on the settlement prepared for the council.
"With their exemplary victory, the Flaum workers have shown that abusive workplaces in this sector can be transformed through organizing, grassroots advocacy and litigation".
But even those of us who have avoided the most abusive workplaces live with malignant gender dynamics in our homes — and risk passing them on to our children.
I'm an organizational researcher at Stanford, so I've carefully reviewed thousands of economic papers on bullying and abusive workplaces.
Bickers believes that dancers' status as stigmatized workers in the legal grey area between regular employment and working as independent contractors paves the way for unsafe and abusive workplaces to flourish.
Speaking up is extremely risky for any woman who's been assaulted or harassed, but the stakes are far higher for those in low-wage industries — many of whom are women of color — who don't have the financial freedom to leave abusive workplaces, who are far less likely to have the resources for legal aid, or who may be afraid to come forward because of their immigration status.
