Compliance alone isn't enough. Mallesons partner Cilla Robinson explains what genuine workplace support looks like
Australian employers are falling short when it comes to supporting employees affected by family and domestic violence, and a leading employment law expert says the gap between having a policy and building a genuinely safe system is wider than most HR leaders realise.
Cilla Robinson, a partner in the employee relations and safety team at Mallesons in Sydney, brings more than two decades of specialist experience in employment and workplace relations law to one of the most sensitive areas facing HR teams today.
With coercive control reforms now embedded in New South Wales legislation and psychosocial safety obligations tightening nationally, she says employers can no longer treat domestic violence as a matter that sits outside the workplace.
This is an issue that can't be ignored. Data from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare found that in 2021–22, one in four women and one in 14 men had experienced violence from an intimate partner since the age of 15.
It also revealed that in 2023–24, nearly 9 in 10 hospitalisations involving treatment for assault by a partner were for females and 13 per cent of adults in 2021–22 had witnessed partner violence against a parent before the age of 15.
"Family and domestic violence is distressingly common in Australia, it disproportionately affects women, and it often follows victim-survivors into work," Robinson said....
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