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In The Workplace: Violence Against Women is Costing You Money and Productivity
Employers who fail to protect their employees from violence at work may be liable. Jury awards for inadequate security suits average $1.2 million nationwide and settlements average $600,000.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that the annual cost of lost productivity due to domestic violence equals $727.8 million, with more than 7.9 million paid workdays lost each year.
The national health care costs of domestic violence are high, with direct medical and mental health care services for victims amounting to nearly $4.1 billion.
In the case of La Rose v. State Mutual Life Assurance Co., Francesia La Rose’s family filed a wrongful-death action against her employer when she was murdered by a former boyfriend at the work site. The employer paid a settlement of $850,000 for failing to protect her after being notified of a specific threat.
The costs of intimate partner violence exceeded $5.8 billion each year, $4.1 billion of which is for direct medical and mental health services, much of which is paid for by the employer.
94% of corporate security directors surveyed rank domestic violence as a high security problem at their company.
37% of women who experienced domestic violence reported that the abuse had an impact on their work in the form of lateness, missed work, or keeping a job.
Women who have been raped or sexually assaulted report diminished work functioning, sometimes for up to eight months after the attack.
An estimated 250,000 women are stalked each year in the US and report missing work as a result of the stalking, missing an average of eleven days per year.
(Statistics from: www.endabuse.org)
