Partnered with a Survivor: David Mandel and Ruth Reymundo Mandel
This podcast is a series of conversations.
What started as a series of intimate conversations between Ruth and David that ranged from personal to professional experiences around violence, relationships, abuse, and system and professional responses which harm, not help, has now become a global conversation about systems and culture change. In many episodes, David and Ruth are joined by a global leader in different areas like child safety, men and masculinity, and, of course, partnering with survivors. Each episode is a deep dive into complex topics like how systems fail domestic abuse survivors and their children, societal views of masculinity and violence, and how intersectionalities such as cultural beliefs, religious beliefs, and unique vulnerabilities impact how we respond to abuse and violence. These far-ranging discussions offer an insider look into how we navigate the world together as professionals, as parents, and as partners. During these podcasts, David and Ruth challenge the notions which keep all of us from moving forward collectively as systems, as cultures, and as families into safety, nurturance, and healing.
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Partnered with a Survivor: David Mandel and Ruth Reymundo Mandel
Season 4 Episode 11: Human Resources Policy & Domestic Violence: Creating a Domestic Violence–Informed Organization
Consider this…
- Domestic violence represents 27% of violent events in the workplace
- 22% of victims required 31 or more days away from work to recover
- 22% of victims missed 3–5 days of work
- 56% of victims arrived late at least 5x/month
- 65% of companies do not have domestic violence policy
These statistics only represent a fraction of the picture of how domestic violence perpetrators impact their partner’s employment but also how they impact employers and the overall workplace environment. In addition to the impact on the survivor’s employment (poor performance, lateness, absenteeism, loss of income, loss of career advancement), employers face worker attrition, performance-related losses, and even liability.
In this episode, David and Ruth discuss a range of issues associated with domestic violence perpetrator behavior and the workplace, including:
- The importance of consistent domestic abuse–informed culture (inside and out), especially if your organization’s work touches on families
- The different ways perpetrators harm a partner’s employment
- Different strategies organizations can engage in to make their human resource policy more domestic abuse–informed
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