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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Mary Kay Isn't Looking Away
Cosmetics company’s campaigns aimed at raising domestic violence awareness | Domestic violence isn’t pretty. So why would one of the nation’s largest cosmetic comp... 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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