Plan International Australia wishes to create a pioneering domestic violence leave policy to help women obtain paid leave for issues related to domestic violence. Research shows that two-thirds of women experiencing domestic violence are employed, and domestic violence impacts workplace productivity and safety. A policy could help address this issue in line with Plan's commitment to gender equality and child protection. An effective policy would involve gathering stakeholders, assessing needs, and training staff to prevent and address domestic violence in the workplace.
Presentation by Justin Falk and Nadia Karamcheva, analysts in CBO's Labor, Income Security, and Long-Term Analysis Division, to the Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management.
Blake Lapthorn's In-House Lawyer and Decision Makers' forum - 'Health & Safet...Blake Morgan
On Tuesday 25 February 2014, Blake Lapthorn's commercial litigation team hosted an In-House Lawyer and Decision Maker's forum in Southampton. Our speakers, John Mitchell and Nicola Hutchins, discussed the changing landscape of Health & Safety law.
Presentation by Justin Falk and Nadia Karamcheva, analysts in CBO's Labor, Income Security, and Long-Term Analysis Division, to the Savings and Retirement Foundation.
Child-related transfers: is there a room for welfare improvement?GRAPE
How does income risk affect the optimal size of the child-related transfer system? I answer this question in an overlapping generations model with endogenous fertility and PAYG social security. I show that the optimal size of the child-related transfer is increasing in income risk.
First, in the stylized model, I provide the intuition behind this result. Second, I quantify the size of welfare gains due to child-related transfer reform in a full-fledged model calibrated to the US economy.
Expansion of child-related transfer yields to welfare gain even with constant income dispersion. In a scenario with higher income dispersion, welfare gains increase from 1.08% to 1.2% of lifetime consumption.
Third, I show that in a scenario with high-income dispersion, even higher welfare gains may be obtained if the child-related transfer system has a more redistributive nature.
Presentation by Justin Falk and Nadia Karamcheva, analysts in CBO's Labor, Income Security, and Long-Term Analysis Division, to the Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management.
Blake Lapthorn's In-House Lawyer and Decision Makers' forum - 'Health & Safet...Blake Morgan
On Tuesday 25 February 2014, Blake Lapthorn's commercial litigation team hosted an In-House Lawyer and Decision Maker's forum in Southampton. Our speakers, John Mitchell and Nicola Hutchins, discussed the changing landscape of Health & Safety law.
Presentation by Justin Falk and Nadia Karamcheva, analysts in CBO's Labor, Income Security, and Long-Term Analysis Division, to the Savings and Retirement Foundation.
Child-related transfers: is there a room for welfare improvement?GRAPE
How does income risk affect the optimal size of the child-related transfer system? I answer this question in an overlapping generations model with endogenous fertility and PAYG social security. I show that the optimal size of the child-related transfer is increasing in income risk.
First, in the stylized model, I provide the intuition behind this result. Second, I quantify the size of welfare gains due to child-related transfer reform in a full-fledged model calibrated to the US economy.
Expansion of child-related transfer yields to welfare gain even with constant income dispersion. In a scenario with higher income dispersion, welfare gains increase from 1.08% to 1.2% of lifetime consumption.
Third, I show that in a scenario with high-income dispersion, even higher welfare gains may be obtained if the child-related transfer system has a more redistributive nature.
This research will find the gender pay gap in financial and insurance industries in Australia. It will not only benefit the domain of gender pay gap but it will also help in addressing alternative options that will help sideline this essential business issue.
Sara Hajikazemi 'Gender Equality Interventions In Project based Organisations...PMIUKChapter
What kinds of interventions are utilized in PBOs
to deal with gender inequality?
• What kinds of interventions are effective and
which are not, in dealing with gender inequality
in PBOs and why?
We examine the effect of the replacement rate of a social insurance system on sickness absence by exploiting a regression kink design. The elasticity of absence with respect to the benefit level, in addition to risk preferences, is a critical parameter in defining the optimal sickness insurance scheme. Using a large administrative dataset, we find a robust behavioral response. The statistically significant point estimate of the elasticity of the duration of sickness absence with respect to the replacement rate in a social insurance system is on the order of 1. Given our estimate, we characterize the optimal benefit level.
Reflection paper NO PLAGIARISM TIMES NEW ROMAN FONT. DO NOT U.docxlillie234567
Reflection paper: NO PLAGIARISM / TIMES NEW ROMAN FONT. / DO NOT USE CITATIONS EXCEPT FOR THE VIDEO.
For this assignment, you will take some time to reflect on what you know, what you are learning, and what you still want/need to learn in relation to this course. Opportunities to reflect on our profession’s learning competencies, practice behaviors, and methods for how to be an effective social worker are important moments in our development as lifelong learners. To complete this assignment, you will reflect on the assigned readings, classroom discussions, activities, and assignments.
INSTRUCTIONS:IT SHOULD BE REFLECTIVE WRITING. Please divide your paper up by competency. Each competency should be a new paragraph (1 paragraph for competency) that includes all of the information below:
EACH PARAGRAPH MUST CONTAIN THE INFORMATION BELOW:
1.
Describe the assignment/activity you engaged in. Describe the purpose of this assignment/activity. What did you do?
2.
Briefly describe the competency you are linking the assignment/activity to. Provide a brief synopsis of the competency in your own words.
3.
Describe how the assignment/activity helped you obtain certain knowledge and skills for each competency covered. how the assignment/activity helped you in the process of mastering the competency? How did this assignment/activity help you in learning the skill and/or obtaining the knowledge that the competency discusses?
4.
What do you still want and/or need to know in order to master the competency? This can be briefly summarized in a short conclusion paragraph at the end of your paper, or briefly discussed throughout the paper under each competency.
Core Competencies:
CC 1 – Demonstrate Ethical & Professional Behavior: I did a Response Paper on the Day It Snowed in Miami.
CC2 – Advance human rights and social, racial, economic, and environmental justice: I did a Response Paper on the 13th Film (13th Amendment).
CC3 – Engage Anti-racism, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (ADEI) in Practice: I did a Social Justice & Action Project on the Women's Rights Movement.
CC4 – Engage in research-informed practice and practice-informed research: We talk in class about the TEDMED of Nadine Burke Harris regarding How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95ovIJ3dsNk
CC5 – Engage in Policy Practice: I did a Policy Research Paper on Student Loans Forgiveness.
CC6 – Engage with Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities: I learn how to do an action plan and I created one Action Plan with goals and objectives for someone on how to work on anger management and how to find a job.
CC7 – Assess Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities: I did an Individual & Family Assessment Paper on the movie (Precious) the principal actor.
Women's participation in the labour market is dependent on a number of factors. The policies and the budget has to be gender sensitive to create an enabling environment for the women workers. We need to shift from the gender neutral approach to the gender sensitive approach.by asking the right questions during budget preparation.
This report from Assignment Desk UK proposes to develop health communities by resolving the issue of teenage pregnancy in the Wolverhampton area of England.
Australian Government,
Corporate and NGO
partnerships establish
The Dandelion Program
to deliver social and
economic benefits for
workers with Autism
Spectrum Disorder and all
Australians
Policy IssuesCJS231 Version 32University of Phoenix Mater.docxharrisonhoward80223
Policy Issues
CJS/231 Version 3
2
University of Phoenix Material
Policy Issues
In this assignment, you will have the opportunity to critically reflect on current issues within the criminal justice system and how they relate to contemporary policy making.
Selectand complete one of the following assignments:
Option 1: Microsoft® PowerPoint® Presentation
Option 2: Podcast
Option 3: Paper
Option 1: Microsoft® PowerPoint® Presentation
In this assignment option, you will express your thoughts and opinions regarding the content of your selected video by preparing a short PowerPoint presentation.
Choose one of the two videos located in this week’s Required Learning Activities
Develop a 10- to 12-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation.
Address the following in your presentation:
· Was the content of your video a personal crime, property crime, or policy issue?
· What causal factors were addressed in the video?
· What policy implications or recommendations were provided in the video to address the crime?
· Were budgetary or financial issues discussed in the video? If so, elaborate.
· What future implications were discussed in the video?
· What other content-specific information is relevant to your selected video?
· What basic elements of the crime served as the basis for your selected video?
· What criminological theory or theories best explains the occurrence of this crime or issue?
Perform external research as necessary to support the content of your videosubject matter.
List major points in the slides. Include detailed explanations in the speaker notes section that correlate to each point.
Include videos, audio, photos, diagrams, or graphs as appropriate.
Format yourpresentation consistent with APA guidelines.
Submit the Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation assignment.
Format your presentation consistent with APA guidelines.
Submit your work to the Assignment Files tab.Option 2: Podcast
In this assignment option, you will verbally express your thoughts and opinions regarding the content of your selected podcast.
Choose one of the two videos located in this week’s Required Learning Activities
Develop a 7- to 9-minute audio podcast using your computer’s audio recording function or an open source audio recording tool from the internet such as Audacity, Power Sound Editor, or WavePad Sound Editor. When recording from your computer, large files may need to be compressed before submitting.
Address the following in your audio recording:
· Was the content of your video a personal crime, property crime, or policy issue?
· What causal factors were addressed in the video?
· What policy implications or recommendations were provided in the video to address the crime?
· Were budgetary or financial issues discussed in the video? If so, elaborate.
· What future implications were discussed in the video?
· What other content-specific information is relevant to your selected video?
· What basic elements of the crime served as the bas.
It’s been 50 years since the first equal pay act in Australia and it shouldn’t take another 50 years to achieve gender pay equity. Chifley Research Centre’s newest research report examines the policies needed to close the gender pay gap sooner. See our report here.
This research will find the gender pay gap in financial and insurance industries in Australia. It will not only benefit the domain of gender pay gap but it will also help in addressing alternative options that will help sideline this essential business issue.
Sara Hajikazemi 'Gender Equality Interventions In Project based Organisations...PMIUKChapter
What kinds of interventions are utilized in PBOs
to deal with gender inequality?
• What kinds of interventions are effective and
which are not, in dealing with gender inequality
in PBOs and why?
We examine the effect of the replacement rate of a social insurance system on sickness absence by exploiting a regression kink design. The elasticity of absence with respect to the benefit level, in addition to risk preferences, is a critical parameter in defining the optimal sickness insurance scheme. Using a large administrative dataset, we find a robust behavioral response. The statistically significant point estimate of the elasticity of the duration of sickness absence with respect to the replacement rate in a social insurance system is on the order of 1. Given our estimate, we characterize the optimal benefit level.
Reflection paper NO PLAGIARISM TIMES NEW ROMAN FONT. DO NOT U.docxlillie234567
Reflection paper: NO PLAGIARISM / TIMES NEW ROMAN FONT. / DO NOT USE CITATIONS EXCEPT FOR THE VIDEO.
For this assignment, you will take some time to reflect on what you know, what you are learning, and what you still want/need to learn in relation to this course. Opportunities to reflect on our profession’s learning competencies, practice behaviors, and methods for how to be an effective social worker are important moments in our development as lifelong learners. To complete this assignment, you will reflect on the assigned readings, classroom discussions, activities, and assignments.
INSTRUCTIONS:IT SHOULD BE REFLECTIVE WRITING. Please divide your paper up by competency. Each competency should be a new paragraph (1 paragraph for competency) that includes all of the information below:
EACH PARAGRAPH MUST CONTAIN THE INFORMATION BELOW:
1.
Describe the assignment/activity you engaged in. Describe the purpose of this assignment/activity. What did you do?
2.
Briefly describe the competency you are linking the assignment/activity to. Provide a brief synopsis of the competency in your own words.
3.
Describe how the assignment/activity helped you obtain certain knowledge and skills for each competency covered. how the assignment/activity helped you in the process of mastering the competency? How did this assignment/activity help you in learning the skill and/or obtaining the knowledge that the competency discusses?
4.
What do you still want and/or need to know in order to master the competency? This can be briefly summarized in a short conclusion paragraph at the end of your paper, or briefly discussed throughout the paper under each competency.
Core Competencies:
CC 1 – Demonstrate Ethical & Professional Behavior: I did a Response Paper on the Day It Snowed in Miami.
CC2 – Advance human rights and social, racial, economic, and environmental justice: I did a Response Paper on the 13th Film (13th Amendment).
CC3 – Engage Anti-racism, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (ADEI) in Practice: I did a Social Justice & Action Project on the Women's Rights Movement.
CC4 – Engage in research-informed practice and practice-informed research: We talk in class about the TEDMED of Nadine Burke Harris regarding How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95ovIJ3dsNk
CC5 – Engage in Policy Practice: I did a Policy Research Paper on Student Loans Forgiveness.
CC6 – Engage with Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities: I learn how to do an action plan and I created one Action Plan with goals and objectives for someone on how to work on anger management and how to find a job.
CC7 – Assess Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities: I did an Individual & Family Assessment Paper on the movie (Precious) the principal actor.
Women's participation in the labour market is dependent on a number of factors. The policies and the budget has to be gender sensitive to create an enabling environment for the women workers. We need to shift from the gender neutral approach to the gender sensitive approach.by asking the right questions during budget preparation.
This report from Assignment Desk UK proposes to develop health communities by resolving the issue of teenage pregnancy in the Wolverhampton area of England.
Australian Government,
Corporate and NGO
partnerships establish
The Dandelion Program
to deliver social and
economic benefits for
workers with Autism
Spectrum Disorder and all
Australians
Policy IssuesCJS231 Version 32University of Phoenix Mater.docxharrisonhoward80223
Policy Issues
CJS/231 Version 3
2
University of Phoenix Material
Policy Issues
In this assignment, you will have the opportunity to critically reflect on current issues within the criminal justice system and how they relate to contemporary policy making.
Selectand complete one of the following assignments:
Option 1: Microsoft® PowerPoint® Presentation
Option 2: Podcast
Option 3: Paper
Option 1: Microsoft® PowerPoint® Presentation
In this assignment option, you will express your thoughts and opinions regarding the content of your selected video by preparing a short PowerPoint presentation.
Choose one of the two videos located in this week’s Required Learning Activities
Develop a 10- to 12-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation.
Address the following in your presentation:
· Was the content of your video a personal crime, property crime, or policy issue?
· What causal factors were addressed in the video?
· What policy implications or recommendations were provided in the video to address the crime?
· Were budgetary or financial issues discussed in the video? If so, elaborate.
· What future implications were discussed in the video?
· What other content-specific information is relevant to your selected video?
· What basic elements of the crime served as the basis for your selected video?
· What criminological theory or theories best explains the occurrence of this crime or issue?
Perform external research as necessary to support the content of your videosubject matter.
List major points in the slides. Include detailed explanations in the speaker notes section that correlate to each point.
Include videos, audio, photos, diagrams, or graphs as appropriate.
Format yourpresentation consistent with APA guidelines.
Submit the Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation assignment.
Format your presentation consistent with APA guidelines.
Submit your work to the Assignment Files tab.Option 2: Podcast
In this assignment option, you will verbally express your thoughts and opinions regarding the content of your selected podcast.
Choose one of the two videos located in this week’s Required Learning Activities
Develop a 7- to 9-minute audio podcast using your computer’s audio recording function or an open source audio recording tool from the internet such as Audacity, Power Sound Editor, or WavePad Sound Editor. When recording from your computer, large files may need to be compressed before submitting.
Address the following in your audio recording:
· Was the content of your video a personal crime, property crime, or policy issue?
· What causal factors were addressed in the video?
· What policy implications or recommendations were provided in the video to address the crime?
· Were budgetary or financial issues discussed in the video? If so, elaborate.
· What future implications were discussed in the video?
· What other content-specific information is relevant to your selected video?
· What basic elements of the crime served as the bas.
It’s been 50 years since the first equal pay act in Australia and it shouldn’t take another 50 years to achieve gender pay equity. Chifley Research Centre’s newest research report examines the policies needed to close the gender pay gap sooner. See our report here.
1. 1
Domestic Violence and the Workplace
Plans Policy Assessment
Research Report
Plan International Australia
March 2014
Grace Dee Macauley – Volunteer at PIA
Email: gdeemacauley@gmail.com
2. 2
Forward:
Plan International Australia (PIA) wishes to create a pioneering approach to
domestic violence through implementing a policy for women to obtain the
required paid leave .
Two thirds of women who have experienced domestic violence with their
current partner are in paid employment. Through detailed reports, researches
and action plans surrounding this issue have begun a wide spread discussion
over the past decade. This report will underpin the reasons such a policy should
exist within ANO.
3. 3
Contents
What is Domestic Violence? ....................................................................3
Domestic Violence and the Workplace Facts ………………………………….4
(2.1) The ‘Project’
(2.2) ADFVC Survey
Economic Impacts…………………………………………………………………………..5
Existing Commitments…………………………………………………………………….6
Plans Commitment to Gender Equality……………………………………………7
(5.1) Plans Strategy 2012-2016
(5.2) GESA
(5.3) Commitment to Child Protection
Effective Implementations……………………………………………………………..8
External Recourses…………………………………………………………………………
4. 4
(1) What is Domestic Violence?
Over recent years domestic violence has appeared on many fair work and policy
amendments nationally and internationally. It is defined by the Victoria Family
Act 2008 in the below appendix (1). In short it is an abuse by a family member
or partner/ex-partner that can include forms of intimidation, control, isolation
and emotional, physical, sexual or spiritual abuse.
Victoria Family Act 2008
Section 5 Meaning of family violence
(1) For the purposes of this Act, family violence is—
(a) behaviour by a person towards a family member of that person if that
behaviour—
(i) is physically or sexually abusive; or
(ii) is emotionally or psychologically abusive; or
(iii) is economically abusive; or
(iv) is threatening; or
(v) is coercive; or
(vi) in any other way controls or dominates the family
member and causes that family member to feel fear for
the safety or wellbeing of that family member or another
person; or
(b) behaviour by a person that causes a child to hear or
witness, or otherwise be exposed to the effects of, behaviour
referred to in paragraph (a).
Appendix 1
5. 5
(2) Domestic Violence and the Workplace Facts
(2.1) The ‘Project’
In 2010 The University of New South Wales created an 18 month plan named
‘Domestic Violence Workplace Rights and Entitlements Project’ (the ‘Project’):
This report created a greater awareness of the correlation between workplace
productivity, employers safety and gender equality.
The ‘Project’ Quick Facts:
On average Victorian Police attend over 20,000 incidents of family
violence each year (around 385 per week). Children are present at more
than half of these incidents *60, 000.
Between one quarter and one half of women who have been subjected to
domestic violence report having lost a job, at least in part due to the
violence.
A consequence is that victims of domestic violence have a more disrupted
work history and are therefore on lower personal incomes.
Domestic violence is an increasing problem in Victoria, with reports to
police of family violence-related crime up by nearly a quarter in 2011-12.
(UNSW 2010)
6. 6
(2.2) ADFVC Survey
In 2011 Australian Domestic & Family Violence Clearinghouse (ADFVC)
performed a National Domestic Violence and the Workplace Survey of 1,000
participants. Of this survey 81% were women and two thirds in fulltime
employment.
The results below show that
Nearly a third of respondents (30%) had personally experienced
domestic violence
A further 20% had not personally experienced domestic violence but
knew someone in paid employment who had
For 19%, one worker in five who experienced domestic violence, the
violence continued at the workplace
Overall, 78% of respondents believed that workplace entitlements could
reduce the impact of domestic violence in the workplace
Such statistics has produced a transformation for some organisations and
companies to take control of this issue. There are obvious correlation between
the increase of cases and the companies’ productivity and safety.
7. 7
(3) Economic Impacts
When speaking about domestic violence, the first and foremost priority is for
women’s safety and equality. Unfortunately there is also the reality that has its
burdens on companies and organisations themselves, especially economically.
It is conditions such as being distracted from work, impaired work performance
and being threatened at work are large fixtures in the effects of domestic and
family violence amongst the workplace.
The reality hits as in 2004 Access Economics estimated that:
Domestic violence cost Australia $8.1 billion in 2002-03
Victims bear the largest cost burden of domestic violence, estimated at
$4.05 billion out of a total $8.1 billion in 2002-03
This highlights the importance of employment as a pathway for women to
leaving violent relationships. Trough companies creating a policy it shows a will
to increase the safety of employers and a commitment to gender equality. Plans
Strategy on Gender Equality 2012- 2016 outlines its areas of operational
standards and how PIA wishes to create gender standards within the company.
8. 8
(4) Existing Commitments
There is progression internationally with companies such as Corporate Alliance
to End Partner Violence in the US and the British Trade Union UNISON creating
effective policies for workplace entitlements.
These progressions also exist within Australia. In April 2013 an amendment was
recommended by the Australian Law Reform Commission Report on Family
Violence and Commonwealth Employment Law 2011, the inclusion of domestic
violence in the Fair Work Act is both Australian Council of Trade Union Policy
(Congress May 2012), and Australian Labour Party Policy (December 2011).
Some say we are leading the world with over 1 million Australian employees
now covered by domestic violence clauses in their agreement or award
conditions (ADFVC, 2011).
In September 2010 Torquay-based Surf Coast Shire and the Australian Services
Union has been hailed as possibly the world's most progressive workplace
agreement on family violence. This involved an extra 20 days paid leave for
victims of domestic violence.
9. 9
(5) Plans commitment to Gender Equality
‘Plan believes that gender equality is central to achieving our vision for change’
Implementing a domestic violence policy correlates with PIA’s gendered centred
approach to workplace equality.
(5.1) Plan’s Strategy on Gender Equality 2012-2016
Plan’s Strategy on Gender Equality 2012-2016 states that:
Plans offices will have workplace policies that assure equal opportunities
for male and female staff and a family-friendly work environment
Sexual harassment and gender discrimination will not be tolerated
Among the priority actions to 2016, Plan encourages relevant implementations
to insure a safe and equal workplace through meeting a set of gender standards
by 2016. A domestic violence leave policy would be a pioneering approach to
ensure these standards are met.
(5.2) Gender Equality Self-Assessment (GESA) Survey 2012
A survey in which the response exemplified the need for commitment to policy
to ensure Plan Strategy on Gender Equality is met by 2016.
Responses such as:
10. 10
A 69% of respondents agreed that policy assures equal opportunities
Overall 83% of staff members agreed sexual harassment and gender
based discrimination should not be tolerated in the workplace.
Through looking at the effectiveness of the GESA, it has ensured that ANO staff is
equipped with skills, attitudes and knowledge towards gender equality. Ensuring
such a policy would be easily implemented and greatly effective.
(5.3) Commitment to child protection
Aside from the overarching benefits of this policy for women, it also creates a
safer environment for family and children. This will always be at the heart of
Plan’s social policy and implementations.
By advocating for protection for women in the workplace it creates an
awareness of the existing gender relations that still exist. By creating a policy
within the workplace it brings a realistic element to the work that can be done
for gender equality.
11. 11
(6) Effective Implementations:
Below is a brief outline of how such a policy could potentially be implemented:
Gather internal and external stakeholders such as; HR, Victoria Police,
Workplace Safety Victoria, CEDAW
Survey similar to the GESA to obtain knowledge of awareness of domestic
violence within ANO.
Information package on the effects of domestic violence on workplace
environment and effectiveness.
Online training package
Train key staff in preventing and identifying domestic violence in the
workplace
Risk assessments; keeping the line between personal life and the
workplace
Training to deal with disclosure of information of domestic violence from
fellow employers
12. 12
External Recourses:
University of New South Wales, 2011, Domestic Violence and the Workplace :
Employee, Employer and Union Recourses
Ludo McFerren , Safe at Home, Safe at Work, 2011, National Domestic Violence
and the Workplace Survey 2011
White Ribbon : Genders at Work: Exploring the role of workplace equality in
preventing men’s violence against women
Access Economics. (2004). The Cost of Domestic Violence to the Australian
Economy. Canberra: Office of the Status of Women, Australian Government
Australian Human Rights Commission (2012). Working Without Fear: Results of
the Sexual Harassment National Telephone Survey 2012. Sydney, Australian
Human Rights Commission