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June 7, 2023

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Government Releases U.S. National Plan to End Gender-Based Violence
On June 1, 2023, the federal government issued the first-ever U.S. National Plan to End Gender-Based Violence, which emphasizes building the capacity of employers, workplaces, unions, and worker organizations to prevent and address gender-based violence, particularly in high-risk environments. According to the news release, there are five “key ways that the Department of Labor and other federal agencies will work together to prevent and address gender-based violence, including sexual harassment, in the world of work”:

• Shift workplace norms and practices to prevent gender-based violence and support employees impacted by it.
• Establish the federal government as a model employer for preventing and responding to gender-based violence in the workplace.
• Build the capacity of employers, workplaces, unions, and worker organizations to prevent and respond to gender-based violence, particularly in industries, occupations, and work arrangements in which workers are more likely to experience it.
• Improve gender-based violence survivors’ economic security through access to good jobs with family-sustaining wages, benefits, and workplace protections, as well as support for business entrepreneurship.
• Increase access to and awareness of worker protections and policies to help survivors or those at risk of gender-based violence keep their job and maintain their economic security.

The news release is available here.

The U.S. National Plan to End Gender-Based Violence is available here.