The Salt Lake Tribune recently published an interesting article on domestic violence. The article included a side bar article (from the Family Violence Prevention Fund, www.endabuse.org) on the significant problems this issue poses for employers: (1) 94 percent of corporate security directors surveyed rank domestic violence as a high-security problem at their companies; (2) Employers who fail to protect their employees from violence at work may be liable; (3) The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate the annual cost of lost productivity due to domestic violence equals $727.8 million, with more than 7.9 million paid workdays lost each year; (4) The national health care costs of domestic violence are high, with direct medical and mental health care services for victims amounting to nearly $4.1 billion; (5) In a 1994 survey, 66 percent of executives said their companies’ financial performance would benefit from addressing the issue of domestic violence among their employees; (6) After domestic violence training for factory employees, the rate of employees asking for workplace counseling services for domestic abuse problems was 14 times what it had been; (7) When a sample group of 40 abused factory employees began using counseling services, their average absence rate was higher than the factor’s average. Afterward, their absenteeism rates were back to normal.