nvolve repayment to employees through worker(s compensation benefits, counseling, or medical care. Legal fees to defer the costs of litigation resulting from homicide type events can be sources of enormous costs. Beyond this, there may be jury awards to employees, families, and victims. Loss of productivity from employees is another cost component that must be considered( (Elliott, 1994, p. 287). The extent of such losses were documented by the National Safe Workplace Institute in Chicago which estimated that (workplace violence cost employers $4.2 billion in lost work and legal expenses in 1992 alone( (McCune, 1994, p. 52).
Public and Private Sector Efforts to Address Workplace Violence
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