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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.

This guide advises supervisors on how to handle situations where a supervisor believes an employee is a victim of domestic violence, as well as where he or she believes an employee is a perpetrator of domestic violence, and what to do when one employee has a protection order against another.

This report provides an overview of existing research on intimate partner violence and sexual abuse among lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people and makes recommendations for future research.

These 10 principles were developed by a national coalition of employer, labor, and government organizations and define a set of standards to guide workplace responses to domestic violence.

This video is part of the "See the Signs, Speak Out" series on starting conversations in the workplace about domestic and sexual violence.

This guidance provides agencies with direction to enable them to fulfill the goals identified in the Presidential Memorandum on “Establishing Policies for Addressing Domestic Violence in the Federal Workforce,” which was issued on April 18, 2012

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.

The webinar reviews the importance of having a policy that addresses situations where the employee is either a victim or a perpetrator of domestic violence, sexual violence, dating violence, or stalking; principles that inform an effective policy; and features of Legal Momentum’s model policy.

This guide includes information for advocates on how best to assist victims with workplace issues, how to educate employers, how to educate attorneys, and how best to educate the community.

This report informs policy makers and employers about the way Vermont workplaces are affected by domestic violence. It provides important information to help employers make decisions about policy and procedural responses to employees involved in domestic violence.

This fact sheet includes statistics on the costs of domestic and sexual violence and stalking, the incidence of on-the-job intimate partner homicide, and statistics on lost productivity due to domestic and sexual violence and stalking.

This document compiles notable research, reports and studies addressing: the prevalence of domestic and sexual violence and stalking; the costs and economic impact of these forms of violence; the workplace impact of these forms of violence; perpetrators’ impact on the workplace; workplace violence and workplace violence risk assessment/response.

This fact sheet includes information on the impact of domestic and sexual violence on the workplace, why workplace protections are necessary, how the law protects victims, paid family leave, and domestic violence and unemployment insurance.

With only a few small steps, workplaces can help keep everyone safe and productive. Use the resources in this toolkit to help raise awareness, address employment issues and connect people in your workplace to the assistance they may need.

In this law review note, the author makes the case for a “holistic approach” in the juvenile justice system to prevent teen dating violence perpetrators from reoffending.

This article details how some abusers coerce their female partners into pregnancy as a tactic to exert control over their lives. Abusive acts related to this phenomenon include rape, using threatening or manipulative language, and interfering with birth control.

This document is an analysis of data from a study of 309 Canadian women separated from an abusive partner to examine their use of services. Services studied included general health services, mental health services, social services, violence-specific services, and legal services.

This article describes a study conducted in a city in the Midwest United States of data on law enforcement response to Intimate Partner Violence situations since the city began a Coordinated Community Response (CCR) program.

This article details a survey of nurses, medical students, and administrators from a hospital system in Alleghany County, Pennsylvania to determine their attitudes regarding screening patients for Intimate Partner Violence.

This article details a study of medical students and surgical residents at a university in Ontario, Canada to determine their knowledge and attitudes surrounding Intimate Partner Violence. Results indicated a need for more training on Intimate Partner Violence.

This article reviews the methodologies of seventeen empirical studies of Same-Sex Intimate Partner Violence in adults that were published between 1995 and 2006. Recommendations for how to construct improved methodologies for future studies on this topic are discussed.

This article describes a Finnish study of health care professionals and their experience with working with people who have either experienced or been perpetrators of domestic violence.

This law review article argues that we must consider economic forces as being influential to the problem of violence against women.

This document summarizes concerns regarding how police respond to domestic violence and sexual assault, police bias and discrimination against survivors with marginalized identities, and outlines recommendations for improving law enforcement responses to domestic violence and sexual assault.

This bulletin includes violent victimization (rape or sexual assault, robbery, aggravated assault, and simple assault) and property victimization (burglary, motor vehicle theft, and property theft). It describes the annual change from 2013 and analyzes 10-year trends from 2005 through 2014.