Family Violence

Defined in the Family Violence Protection Act and includes the following behaviours:

• Intentional physical assault causing the worker to fear for their safety
• An intentional, reckless, or threatened act or omission that causes damage to the worker or to property or reasonable causes fear of same
• Forcible confinement without lawful reason
• Actual or threatened sexual violence
• Stalking behaviour (following, contacting, observing, etc.) causing fear in the worker
• Behaviour that causes psychological or emotional harm or a reasonable fear of that harm, including a pattern of behaviour that undermines the psychological or emotional well-being of a worker
• Behaviour that controls, exploits, or limits the worker’s access to financial resources
• The deprivation of food, clothing, medical attention, shelter, transportation, or other necessities of life.