Employers, Coworkers

You can:

• Make your workplace a place where victims or offenders learn how and where to ask for help (through posters, brochures in paycheck envelopes, lunchtime programs).

• Make your workplace a place where victims don.t have to lose their jobs due to abuse (supervisory training, workplace policies).

• Understand your liability when you fail to respond to employees who disclose family violence concerns and reduce your risk and theirs.

• When you are concerned that a co-worker or supervisor is being abused: ask. Silence only supports the violence.

Resources for Employers, Coworkers

• Policy and program recommendations and sample workplace materials (posters, brochures, etc.) .

  • www.endabuse.org/programs/workplace/

  • www.prevent.org

  • www.aidv-usa.com/

• Domestic Violence: A Union Issues (a training resource kit for union leaders) . http://store.yahoo.com/fvpfstore/domviolunis.html

• Domestic Violence: Unions Respond (video demonstrations how unions can assist workers who are in abusive relationships) . http://store.yahoo.com/fvpfstore/domviolunres.html

• Employer Temporary Protection Orders . www.legalaid-ga.org.  Scroll down to Domestic Violence Forms for Employers.