Know Your Rights

Do you know someone who:

  • Is afraid of losing a job because of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking?
  • Is being harassed or stalked at work by a current or former partner?
  • Needs to take time off to go to court, see a doctor, find a safe place to live, or take other steps to address domestic or sexual violence?
  • Needs help talking to a boss about changes at work that could help make the workplace safer?
  • Lost a job due to domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking?

These Know Your Rights guides can help. Also see our state law guides and sample letters.
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Know Your Rights

Safety Planning

Time Off

Discrimination

Unemployment Insurance

Welfare to Work participants

Resources

New York-specific resources

Did You Know...

Women are 41% more likely to be poor than men. The gender gap is even larger among older women – they are 74% more likely to be poor than men their age.

Publication Highlight

Risk Assessment and Intimate Partner Sexual Abuse: The Hidden Dimension of Domestic violence
Article by Lynn Hecht Schafran for Judicature Magazine. Risk assessment is of critical concern to judges in every kind fo domestic violence case. Recent research documents the importance of a largely ignored sign of risk and potential lethality in these cases: intimate partner sexual abuse. More »