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Why employers should treat domestic violence as a workplace issue

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In a small West Virginia county a few years ago, Wanda (pseudonym) asked her employer for some time off to deal with a situation at home. Her employer turned her down.



Not long after, Wanda’s situation at home, the abusive partner she’d been trying to escape from, showed up at her workplace and threatened her at gunpoint. Police had to be called, and Wanda’s office shut down for the rest of the day. 



Samuel “Raymie” White, Wanda’s lawyer and the Legal Services Director for the West Virgini

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