Victims of domestic violence always take their emotional and physical wounds with them to work. It is therefore only logical that REWE Group supports its employees - whether victims or attentive senior managers - with specific offers of help: On the one hand, the "Domestic violence" action guide offers a comprehensive information brochure to download. Secondly, the LoS! multipliers are trained colleagues who can help with sensitivity, advice and addresses:

Domestic violence refers to physical, sexual, psychological and economic violence between people living together in the same household. Regardless of whether it takes place inside or outside the home: Domestic violence is not a private matter. There is a legal right to protection. This is important to know, but there is often a long road (of suffering) between experiencing or perpetrating violence and having the courage to obtain a no-contact order from the family court, for example. A path that may have started with insults and humiliation before literally turning into assault or stalking.

What prevents many women who experience domestic violence from separating? The reasons can be the children they share, financial dependency, shame - and quite often a lack of knowledge about who they can turn to for help, what legal rights they have, what they are entitled to financially and how they should proceed step by step.

This is where the LoS! guide "Domestic Violence" comes in, which REWE Group's CoE Health & Innovation department has developed for all employees. In addition to helpful addresses and contact persons (also for the perpetrators), it defines the concept of domestic violence - and where it begins.

The "Domestic violence" guide and other guides on crisis topics, including "Sexualised violence", can be found here: Topfit.App

Whether domestic or sexualised violence, divorce, debt, bullying, the loss of a loved one or a family member in need of care: private problems often shake us so deeply that they also have a significant impact on our working lives. With the LoS! project, REWE Group has been supporting employees in critical life situations quickly, practically and discreetly since 2011. What makes it special: This support comes from within the organisation.

LoS! stands for "Life-phase orientated self-help competence". Employees and works councils are trained to become LoS! multipliers and trained to provide practical help in almost all crisis phases of life. Around 300 LoS! multipliers throughout Germany are now able to provide their colleagues with advice, valuable addresses or simply a sympathetic ear.

All available LoS! multipliers are listed here: Topfit.App