As we continue to face the shadow pandemic of domestic and sexual violence, we need lawmakers at the federal and state levels to provide safe leave—once and for all.
, supported by the Office on Violence Against Women at the U.S. Department of Justice, looks at state-level workplace protections for survivors. It paints a sobering picture, finding that only about half the states provide some form of leave survivors can use related to the violence they’ve been subjected to.
Sadly, paid safe leave is not the only way state laws are failing people facing abuse. Just a handful of states provide anti-discrimination protections specifically for survivors of sexual and domestic violence. More than four in five respondents said that their abusive partners disrupted their ability to work. Among those who experienced one or more disruptions, 53 percent actually lost a job because of the abuse.
Only California, Hawaii, Illinois, Nevada, New York and Oregon, plus Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico offer robust statewide workplace protections for survivors of violence. Most states provide only minimal protections. Kentucky and West Virginia provide no workplace protections for survivors of violence at all.
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