Speaker: Lynn
Fairweather - President, Presage Consulting and Training
Date: December 15th
Thursday
Time: 01:00 PM EST
| 10:00 AM PST
Duration: 90
Minutes
Product Code: 300192
Level: Intermediate
This webinar
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Key Take Away
This webinar covers 10 specific points about employee victims
and perpetrators, violence risk, victim perspective, best practice
interventions, and the financial damage associated with domestic violence.
Overview
Many human resources professionals have had basic domestic
violence training on how domestic violence impacts workplace,
but most do not realize the depth of the problem nor the most effective ways to
deal with it.
Why Should You Attend
Human resources professionals are often charged with handling
employee related domestic violence cases, which can be both challenging and
dangerous.
This webinar seeks to educate and prepare HR staff to assess
and handle domestic violence cases by sharing crucial information on where
victims are coming from, what they’re facing, and how employers can sensitively
and effectively support them, to keep the entire workplace safer overall.
Statistically speaking, every large company has domestic
violence in their midst, whether they realize it or not. More than half of
women (and many men) have experienced physical, sexual, or severe emotional
abuse during their lifetime and most of these victims are employed, as are
their abusers. When both show up to their jobs, the abuse and harassment often
follow, emerging as domestic violence “spillover” in the workplace. The
spillover spectrum ranges from repetitive phone calls on the mild end, to mass
shootings on the extreme. Of course, violent incidents are a primary concern,
but the impact of domestic violence in the workplace reaches far beyond human
safety alone.
Abused employees have higher absenteeism and lower
productivity rates than non-abused employees. They also have over 40% higher
health care costs and a greater chance of leaving the company or being fired
because of what they are experiencing at home and at work.
Performance issues caused by domestic violence are often what
HR encounters first, before realizing the extent of the problem. In addition,
employee-abusers create a significant liability risk for companies posing
threats that range from OSHA violations to multi-million dollar post-incident lawsuits.
If employee victims aren’t coming forward and management isn’t responding
correctly, then the company is “flying blind”, unable to see the dangers before
them.
Human resources professionals should attend this webinar
because while it is within their power to address and defeat the insidious
enemy of domestic violence, they can’t do it without understanding the nature
of their opponent and knowing exactly what tools to use in the battle against
it.
Areas Covered In This Webinar
This webinar begins with a foundational discussion of domestic violence
using general statistics such as prevalence rates by gender, and working victim
stats. Participants are given multiple signs to look for to recognize that an
employee may be experiencing domestic violence.
Next, the subject of employee batterers is explored including
at-work behaviors, policy recommendations, and domestic violence pre-screening
new hires. This section is followed by a closer look at domestic violence
spillover in the workplace.
Areas covered include: workplace attack and homicide
statistics, domestic violence related mass shooting stats, hybrid violence,
workplace vulnerability, and high risk red flags. Additional topics include
absence protocols, emergency management, crisis communications, and lock down
procedures.
The next section delves into performance issues caused by
domestic violence such as absenteeism, reduced productivity, abuser sabotage,
and effects on co-workers. Participants will then examine the legal liabilities
associated with domestic violence at work, such as negligence and civil suits
by victims and their families, OSHA violations and fines, sexual harassment,
unlawful termination, and worker’s compensation suits, as well as the Family
and Medical Leave Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act. Furthermore,
attendees will learn about employee batterer liabilities such as negligent
hiring, training, supervision, or retention lawsuits.
The next section covers victim termination and includes
information on employee victim rights, ideal victim policy, disclosure and
awareness, victim job loss statistics and protections, and what happens when a
victim is fired. This is followed by advice on responding to employee victims
in a sensitive, effective manner and supporting their many needs. Spillover
prevention strategies are discussed such as check-ins, time off, wraparound
escorts, code words, file security, and employer responsibilities around
protection orders.
Attendees will also learn how to audit their EAP and healthcare
packages to determine if the needs of employee victims are being adequately
met. The webinar concludes with an exploration into victim mentality to explain
why victims may stay with or return to an abuser, and the formidable challenges
often associated with leaving an abusive relationship.
Learning Objectives
·
Participants will explore the issue of domestic
violence in workplace and learn how it impacts the workplace
·
Participants will gain insight into the topic
of domestic violence “spill over” and discuss the legal and financial problems
it can create
·
Participants will improve their skills in
recognizing and responding to domestic violence victims in the workplace
·
Participants will examine and develop new
strategies for assessing and managing employee related domestic violence cases
Who Will Benefit
·
Human Resources Professionals
·
Corporate Threat Managers
·
Management Team
·
Employee Relations Staff
·
Legal/ Security Professionals
Speakers Profile
Lynn
Fairweather, MSW is an abuse survivor who has worked in
the domestic violence response and prevention field for over 23 years. In her
role as president of Presage Consulting and Training she provides expert
guidance and education to professionals in both the public and private sector,
ranging from the federal government to multinational Fortune 50 corporations.
Presage services include domestic violence threat assessment
and management training, workplace violence program and policy consultations,
and 24/7 threat response for employee cases. Before founding Presage in 2008,
Lynn earned a bachelor’s degree in Social Science and a master’s degree in
Social Work. Her skills in domestic violence threat assessment were developed
by working on thousands of high risk cases through positions in social service,
criminal justice, university and shelter systems. Lynn has served on several
interpersonal violence task forces and facilitated both victim support groups
and batterer’s intervention programs.
As President of Oregon VAWPAC, Lynn leads America’s only
bi-partisan political action committee focused on ending violence against
women. She is an active member of the Association of Threat Assessment
Professionals and holds training certifications from Homeland Security’s
Federal Law Enforcement Training Center and Gavin de Becker’s Advanced Threat
Assessment Academy.
Locally, she donates her time to train domestic violence
organizations as a way of giving back to the advocacy field where she began her
career. Lynn also writes professionally on the subject of domestic violence,
releasing her first book in 2012 (Stop Signs: Recognizing, Avoiding, and
Escaping Abusive Relationships) and appearing as a featured author in Asta
Publishing’s 2015 compilation “Tales of Women Survivors”.
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