The purWeb Resources:

This website from the Employee Assistance Programmes (EAP) of Family Services Canada contains a brief article on what employers can do related to family violence issues in the work place.

This site from Associated Content, a media company, contains an interesting article regarding the effects of domestic violence on the workplace. While the information pertains to the USA, it is still interesting and parallels our Canadian experience.

This site from Ireland contains excellent information regarding developing a workplace policy on domestic violence and abuse. It contains straightforward guidelines worthy of consideration in any workplace regardless of country.

For a quick fact sheet on how domestic violence affects the workplace this is a great site.

The Family Violence Prevention Fund has created a site containing strategic employer responses to domestic violence.

This site from the Texas Young Lawyers Association contains some valuable tools for reaching the employee/victim in domestic violence situations. While the numbers listed are from Texas, the tools/recommendations are universal.

This site contains some sobering statistics regarding domestic violence in the workplace in the USA, provides valuable guidelines for making any workplace safer regarding domestic violence, and identifies issues that employers should heed.

Corporate Alliance to End Partner Violence website contains practical tools for corporations regarding developing workplace policies and procedures for dealing with a workplace response to partner violence.

It's Everybody's Business is a resource rich Canadian website. The purpose of the site is to increase awareness about family violence and its impact in the workplace and to educate leaders on the enormous cost of family violence. Workplace toolkits have been developed to help employers address the issue of family violence in the workplace.

Family Violence: It's Your Business (A Workplace Toolkit) is intended to provide employers, unions and employees with information and resources for recognizing and responding to family violence situations that enter the workplace.

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