Workplace and Employment

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  Is Your Partner Exploiting Your Work?

  You work too hard, and you feel you have no choice about it. Is your partner exploiting your labor? | In many [healthy] couples, both people work hard but neither pers... read more

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  How Workplaces Can Protect Domestic Violence Survivors

  Here’s how you can help your employees, even if they’re working from home | Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many are working from home, and for those sharing space with ... read more

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  Unemployment Benefits Offered to Survivors Forced to Quit

  Some, but not all, states allocating for more financial security options when fleeing domestic violence | If you’re facing abuse and violence (or the threat of it) at ... read more

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  Tele-Commuting Protects Employees from Viruses, not Violence

  Just because employees aren't at the office, doesn't mean there's nothing you can do | With the advent of the novel coronavirus (or COVID-19), many compani... read more

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  Write a Resume That Gets Noticed

  For survivors heading into the job market, this piece of paper is your first chance to impress | Many survivors of domestic abuse will find themselves back in the job... read more

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  When Your Abuser Is Also Your Boss

  Is your employment contingent on how much power and control your abuser gets to have? | There are abusive bosses out there—tyrannical leaders who make your work lif... read more

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  Afraid of Being Fired?

  What to do if the threat of losing your job is keeping you from reporting abuse | For two years, Doris Rivera-Black kept the fact that her husband was abusing her a... read more

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  Should Guns Be Allowed in the Workplace?

  43 percent of females killed at work are murdered by gun-carrying relatives and partners | We know the presence of a firearm in the home ups a woman’s chance of bei... read more

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  6 Steps to Create a Corporate Domestic Violence Program

  How companies can help recognize and respond to domestic violence among employees | If you read Part 1 of this article, you should already be convinced of the im... read more

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  Training to Spot Abuse

  New Illinois law makes domestic violence awareness part of beauty professionals’ education | A new law that went into effect Jan. 1 requires licensed beauty profess... read more

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  Warning Signs at Work

  How to tell if a coworker is facing abuse at home | Have you ever gotten a haircut that your significant other didn’t notice but your coworkers spotted immediately?... read more

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  Multinational Employers and Domestic Violence

  Confronting the quiet enemy | Doing business globally creates a variety of challenges for multinational employers, but one of the most dangerous threats they face m... read more

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  3 Reasons Why Your Company Should Address Domestic Violence

  Make it your business | As a threat assessment and management consultant, I often face the challenge of convincing employers to heed potential workforce “time bombs”,... read more

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  Breaking the Grip of Workplace Domestic Violence

  Bosses, managers and coworkers need to know what to do when employees face domestic violence | If you’re a business owner, supervisor or human resources professiona... read more

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  Starting Fresh With a Career Swap

  Now’s the time to follow your dreams and go for a job you want | Domestic violence can complicate every aspect of a survivor’s life, including their professional tr... read more