Upcoming Seminar: Domestic Violence as a Workplace and Campus Issue
**This seminar is filled to capacity and registration is now closed.**
Thursday, October 15th, 2009
2:30-4:30 PM
525 ILR Conference Center
Who
Faculty, staff, supervisors, student leaders, and union representatives are all invited to attend a discussion, facilitated by KC Wagner, Director, Workplace Issues, Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR), on domestic violence in the workplace.
What
This program, offered during National Domestic Violence Awareness Month, will define domestic violence and discuss its impact on the work environment. It will also provide an overview of the current research, the roles and responsibilities of supervisors and unions, resources available for the Cornell community, and workplace and community best practices.
Guest Presenters
Guest presentations at this free seminar will be given by:
- Campus Life Labor Management Diversity Committee
- Faculty and Staff Assistance Program (formerly EAP)
- Terry Sharpe, UAW 2300 President
- Sgt. Philip Mospan, Cornell University Police
If you have ever wondered what you should do if someone in your department
were to:
- Receive threatening phone calls from an ex-partner while at work
- Find that her car in the parking lot was vandalized with a threatening message from an ex-partner
- Regularly arrive to work late, with visible bruises the morning after payday
- Confide in a co-worker that his partner might show up on campus after a terrible verbal argument the night before.
- Was in job jeopardy due to excessive absence
- Tell a co-worker about an argument they won with their partner, who also works on campus, using physical force
- Was told by a student about dating violence,
… this program is for you.
Registration
This seminar is filled to capacity and registration is now closed.