What Do You Do when The Complaint Is that Someone Is a Feminist? Treaty Oak ELG, Workplace Investigation, Austin, Texas
What do you do if your client hires you to investigate someone who tells you, “Oh, she’s just a feminist.”? From an investigative standpoint, I don’t know what that means. The academic concept of feminism is that everybody be treated equal regardless of your gender; however, people do not use the word that way. We […]
What Do I Do About My Investigative Template? Treaty Oak ELG, Workplace Investigation, Austin, Texas
What do you do to create an investigative report template? I would start with the Association of Workplace Investigators report templates. You do have to be a member to get them, but AWI’s templates are exceptional. At the end of the day, every report is somewhat unique, but very few need substantial deviations from the […]
What Do I Do About the Types of Conclusions? Treaty Oak ELG, Workplace Investigations, Austin Texas
What do I do about the kinds of conclusions that I can make? First, investigators do not make legal conclusions. Judges make conclusions of law. Since we are not judges and we are not juries, we do not make conclusions of law. We can talk about what is ‘more likely than not,’ and it is […]
What Do I Do with Investigative Facts? Treaty Oak ELG Workplace Investigations Austin Texas Natalie Lynch
What do you do with investigative facts? This concept is the foundation of your first step in an interview. You learn all the properties of a given fact and you do not just accept anything as fact before you know all of the “fact’s” properties. You ask all the ‘W’s about a “fact” such as […]
What Do You Do if Your Investigative Plan Is Not Working? Treaty Oak ELG, Workplace Investigation, Austin, Texas
What do you do if your investigative plan isn’t working? Let’s say you interviewed your reporting party, came up with an investigative lineup, and, those people have no idea what you are asking about. Let’s say your plan is just not working. Assuming you’re billing your client by the hour, you should cut your losses […]
What Do You Do when The Investigator Causes the Delays? Treaty Oak ELG, Workplace Investigation, Austin Texas
What Do You Do when You Know Someone Is Lying? Treaty Oak ELG, Workplace Investigation, Austin, Texas
What do you do if you know someone is lying? I think that we owe the humans we come into contact with, particularly in investigations, the opportunity to respond to the knowledge that their veracity is being challenged. And so even if I know that someone is lying, I’m going to give them an opportunity […]
Us Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit Lifts Nation-Wide Injunction by The Fifth Circuit Court for The Covid-19 Emergency Temporary Standard
Issued by the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the COVID-19 Vaccination and Testing Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS), as of December 17, 2021, can now go into effect. The Sixth Circuit Court’s decision agreeing with the Biden administration that OSHA has the authority to develop an emergency standard to protect workers from the effects […]
What Do I Do when You Suspect Someone Lacks Capacity? Treaty Oak ELG, Workplace Investigation, Austin Texas
What do you do if your interviewee doesn’t understand what you’re asking because they lack capacity or because you expect that they lack capacity? It is very unlikely that you, as an investigator, can make a determination about someone’s capacity. There are certainly tests the layperson can utilize to determine if someone lacks capacity because […]
