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  • General Material
February 2009

Work Opportunity Tax Credit

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Under current law, businesses can claim a work opportunity tax credit (WOTC) equal to 40 percent of the first $6,000 of wages paid to employees who are members of one of nine targeted groups. Employees must work at least 400 hours to be counted for the full credit.
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January 2009

Equal Pay Act of 1963 and Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009

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This brochure describes the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009, which overturned the Supreme Court’s decision in Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., Inc., 550 U.S. 618 (2007), which severely restricted the time period for filing complaints of employment discrimination concerning compensation. The brochure also describes the Equal Pay Act of 1963, which prohibits sex-based wage discrimination between men and women in the same establishment who perform jobs that require substantially equal skill, effort, and responsibility under similar working conditions.
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January 2009

Employment Law and Domestic Violence: A Practitioner’s Guide

Author(s): Publisher(s):
This guide is for attorneys working in a range of settings, including those representing employees and employers in the public and private sectors, those representing unions, and those representing victims of domestic violence.
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  • General Material
January 2009

Leadership Development and Leadership Change

Publisher(s):
Leadership Development and Leadership Change is a report on how a group of social justice organizations, in the Bay Area and nationally, are linking leadership development to executive leadership transitions, paying particular attention to race, class, gender, and age.
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  • General Material
January 2008

Combating trafficking in children for labour exploitation: A resource kit for policy-makers and practitioners

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This resource kit captures over 10 years of work by IPEC and its partners and makes the Programme's experiences and knowledge available to those who design, implement and improve policy and programming to fight child trafficking.
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  • Training Tools
  • General Material
August 2007

Domestic Violence and Occupational Homicides

Author(s): Publisher(s):
This presentation describes the results of a CDC-funded project (1999-2005) to quantify the magnitude of IPV in females in Kentucky, characterize its nature, and measure health and mental health outcome.
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  • General Material
January 2007

Domestic Violence in the Workplace

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This article by a nursing student describes a study of intimate partner violence that either occurred in the workplace or that directly impacted the victim’s work.
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  • General Material
January 2007

Trends in Workplace Homicides in the U.S., 1993-2002: A Decade of Decline

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This study found that type IV workplace homicides -- that is, those involving a personal relationship between the worker and the offender -- had actually declined significantly less than overall workplace homicides and declined the least of the four types.
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  • General Material
May 2006

Citywide Minimum Wage Laws: a New Policy tool for Local Governments

Author(s): Publisher(s):
Initial research and impact of these measures on local workers, businesses and communities is also reviewed. Differences with living wage and our wage legislation are covered.
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  • General Material
October 2005

Occupational injuries, illnesses, and fatalities among women

Author(s): Publisher(s):
Findings indicate that homicide was the leading source of fatal workplace injuries for women, and that female murder victims were much more likely to have been killed by a family member than were male victims.
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  • General Material
January 2005

Employment Discrimination Against Abused Women

Publisher(s):
This document provides Q&A explaining legal definitions of sex discrimination, sexual harassment, and wrongful discharge. Action steps involving possible legal remedies are briefly outlined.
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  • General Material
January 2005

Intimate Partner Violence, Employment, and the Workplace

Author(s): Publisher(s):
This article is a literature review on violence against women and employment. It includes information on types of job interference tactics by perpetrators, employer responses and attitudes, consequences for employers, and survivor responses. Available from: Contact the NRCDV at 1-800-537-2238; 1-800-553-2508 (TTY).