LONDON: Some of Britain's biggest financial and legal firms have stepped up support for staff members and customers suffering domestic abuse after ...
LONDON: Some of Britain's biggest financial and legal firms have stepped up support for staff members and customers suffering domestic abuse after the COVID-19 lockdown shed new light on the scale of a problem affecting millions nationwide.
"For too long it has been left to a small number of highly specialist, feminist organisations to make the case for bringing an end to domestic abuse, and trying to find the means to do that," SafeLives' Chief Executive Suzanne Jacob said. "What could have been seen purely as a domestic issue all of a sudden was more clearly a workplace issue and you have to take action," Jenny Lloyd, diversity and wellbeing manager at Linklaters, said.
With thousands of tell-tale datapoints at their fingertips, financial firms are often on the frontline of the fight against such abuse, but cannot act before a customer asks for help. "People have had a number of lights turned on about what it might mean to have a duty of care to staff when they are not in a typical workspace," SafeLives' Jacob said.
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