Workplace Policies

Domestic violence, sexual violence, dating violence, and stalking are workplace issues and impact the workplace even if the incidents occur elsewhere. Workplace policies can provide clear guidelines on how employers will prevent and address these dangerous and damaging forms of violence in the workplace (Futures Without Violence, n.d.). The following resources include model policies and tips on addressing the issue of domestic and sexual violence, and information on workplace policies already in existence.

Model Workplace Policy On Employer Responses to Domestic Violence, Sexual Violence, Dating Violence and Stalking

This model policy outlines guidelines for workplace responses to victims/survivors of violence and perpetrators of violence.

This Workplace is a DV-Free Zone: Creating a Policy That Successfully Addresses DV in the Workplace

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.

Guidance for Agency-Specific Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking Policies

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

State Law Guide: Domestic and Sexual Violence Workplace Policies

This document is an alphabetical listing of states and counties that have adopted DV workplace policies. States with model policies for private businesses are included. Live links to laws, executive orders, and bills are contained within the document.

How to Support a Colleague Victim of Domestic or Sexual Violence

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

10 Principles for the Workplace

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.

Guide for Supervisors: Information for Supervisors on Preventing and Responding to Domestic and Sexual Violence, and Stalking in the Workplace

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.

Create Your Policy

This tool, available on the “Workplaces Respond” website, will help employers create a workplace policy by guiding employers through a series of questions, offering a choice of model language based on a promising practice (which has the most protective language for employees) or, if applicable, language based on the law in the specific state or locality.

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