In the wake of the mortgage crisis, a growing number of workers are getting help avoiding or coping with foreclosure from their employers. A handful of companies are offering assistance, such as interest-free loans, grants and support in securing rental properties. They're also enhancing their employee-assistance programs, or EAPs, and adding more educational seminars on personal finance. 

Various measures are being used by companies to help workers facing foreclosure.

• Interest-free loans and grants to help cover mortgage costs.

• Help identifying low-cost rental housing, along with support for security deposits and leases.

• Credit counseling and seminars specific to mortgage woes.

• Hardship withdrawals from retirement plans.

However, some employers say the mortgage problems workers face aren't a workplace matter.  They believe that if the worker is in over his/her head in a mortgage because they were uninformed or they stretched too far, the employer doesn't have an obligation to fix their problem.

What role if any should employers play in aiding workers facing foreclosures?