Domestic Violence Workplace Rights and Entitlements Project

Domestic Violence Workplace Rights and Entitlements Project, a project of the Australian Domestic and Family Violence Clearinghouse (ADFVC), funded by the Commonwealth Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations. The goal of this project which runs from July 2010 to December 2011, is to reduce the impact of family violence on working women by achieving better workplace rights that support them to stay safely in their jobs and in their homes. This is being achieved by:

• Briefing a broad range of unions and employers nationally on the issue of family violence as a workplace issue, the adoption of family violence provisions in enterprise agreements and other workplace instruments
• Developing with unions and employers a set of model workplace information and training resources for general staff, human resources personnel, union delegates and supervisors.
• Producing model policies and safety plans to assist in the informed introduction of family violence clauses
• Surveying union members to provide essential information on the impact of family violence, and enabling future monitoring of the outcomes of introducing family violence clauses and other instruments.

For more updates and information: please go to http://www.austdvclearinghouse.unsw.edu.au/dv_workplace_rights_entitlements_project.htm