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Can work be safe when home isn't? : initial findings of a pan-Canadian survey on domestic violence and the workplace C. Nadine Wathen, Jennifer C.D. MacGregor, Barbara J. MacQuarrie

By: Wathen, C. Nadine.
Contributor(s): MacGregor, Jennifer C.D | MacQuarrie, Barbara J | Canadian Labour Congress.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London, Ont. ; Centre for Research & Education on Violence Against Women and Children, University of Western Ontario 2014Description: electronic document (12 pages); PDF file: 1.21 MB.Subject(s): DOMESTIC VIOLENCE | DFV LEAVE | EMPLOYMENT | INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE | PREVALENCE | VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE | WORKPLACE | CANADAOnline resources: Click here to access online | Read journal article In: Journal of Occupational & Environmental Medicine, 2015, 57(7): e65–e71Summary: Researchers at the University of Western Ontario, in partnership with the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC), conducted the first ever Canadian survey on domestic violence in the workplace. Ultimately, stronger evidence will help to shape legislation, policies, and practices that promote violence prevention and safety in workplaces, that hold abusers accountable for their behaviour, and that lift the burden from victims so they need not deal with DV alone. (from the introduction). See also the journal article by the same authors (#4847). Record #4851
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Researchers at the University of Western Ontario, in partnership with the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC), conducted the first ever Canadian survey on domestic violence in the workplace. Ultimately, stronger evidence will help to shape legislation, policies, and practices that promote violence prevention and safety in workplaces, that hold abusers accountable for their behaviour, and that lift the burden from victims so they need not deal with DV alone. (from the introduction). See also the journal article by the same authors (#4847). Record #4851