Family and Domestic Violence

Course summary

Family and domestic violence is not only a private or personal issue. It affects a person’s ability to lead a productive life and has broader impacts on children, families and the community.

When an employee is living with family and domestic violence, they can experience heightened financial stress, homelessness, isolation, vulnerability and even a sense of shame. Without appropriate support, there can also be many implications for the workplace.

Key modules

• What is family violence?
• Family violence and employment
• Workplace response to family violence
• Working from home
• Dealing with the impact of family and domestic violence
• Bystander effect
• Identifying family violence
• What can you do?
• Privacy & confidentiality

Learning outcomes

By the end of this course, participants will be able to understand:

• what family and domestic violence is;
• the impacts and effects of family and domestic violence; and
• the organisation’s obligations regarding family and domestic violence.

Legislation covered

Australia: Fair Work Act 2009

New Zealand: Domestic Violence – Victims’ Protection Act 2018