Domestic Violence Survivors Rights as Employees
Domestic violence does not discriminate. It impacts every race, religion, socioeconomic class, age, disability, occupation, gender, sexual orientation, family type, rural communities, urban communities, and education level. Its economic impact just in the United States is more than $8 billion dollars per year. Employees who are victims-survivors of domestic violence have rights under Minnesota and federal law. This article focuses on the rights under Minnesota law. Minnesota’s paid sick and safe time (ESST) covers employees who are victims-survivors of domestic violence. One of the six categories that employees can use ESST for is absences due to domestic abuse, sexual assault or...
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