Outline what legal and statutory protections are in place today to prevent worker abuse. What additional protections are needed? What industries or jobs do you think could become the next fertile area for union organizing attempts? There is the presence of Occupational Safety and Health Act to ensure that no employee can be tortured with poor working conditions or any other form of violence and/or harassment in the workplace (Lumen Learning, n.d.). If any employee is facing any issue of being bullied or physically hurt with violence from another employee, the former employee must complain to the HR manager. The HR manager has to investigate, find out the truth about the incident, and take the necessary action for not letting the employee face violence. There can always be the presence of anti-harassment policies in every organization which can ensure that the employees are protected from being harassed in the workplace unnecessarily or for some reason (Folz, 2018). Racial discrimination must be taken seriously so that the employees are protected from such discrimination in the workplace. The presence of Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act (EPCRA) makes employees protected from being forced to handle chemicals which are extremely hazardous (Chapter 12: