Master’s thesis discusses third party violence in the workplace from legal aspect with focus on internal legal regulation of third party violence in higher education institutions. General characteristics of international and Slovenian legal regulation of third party violence at workplace are provided in the scope of conducted legal analysis. International legal regulation for the most part includes general and therefore reasonably applicable provisions for cases of third party violence with higher level of particular provisions for third party violence regulation in newer international legal acts; meanwhile the problem of third party violence in Slovenian legal regulation is not globally represented, which also affects the internal legal regulation. Research of legal regulation of third party violence at workplace was conducted on a sample of public social science institutions in Slovenia.
Findings of conducted research show that workers in higher education institutions are most times subjected to verbal and psychical violence. Selected higher education institutions rely on common sense use of general provisions in common university regulations related to harassment and maltreatment, which is why separate legal regulation of third party violence is falling behind.
Results of the research present the first step to understanding the problematics of third party violence in workplace, since the sample of the research is limited only to public social science institutions in Slovenia, which is why results of the research cannot be generalized to the overall higher education area. With this master’s thesis we can contribute to raising general awareness and understating of third party violence and propose solutions to higher education institutions in the field of third party violence regulation.
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