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What Do You Do If the Person You’re Talking to is Just Mortified by the Subject Matter, It’s Just Too Embarrassing?
Natalie Lynch is your credentialed investigator and licensed attorney, not a vlogger. What do you do if the person you’re talking to is just mortified by the subject matter, it’s just too embarrassing? Sometimes, this comes up with incidents that involve sexuality – a lot of times. But it could
What Do I Do to Pick a Tone of Speech to Use with Somebody?
Natalie Lynch is your credentialed investigator and licensed attorney, not a vlogger. What do I do to pick a tone of speech to use with somebody? It really depends what they need, but we don’t… We can be empathetic, but we can’t be therapeutic. We can be stern, but we
How Do You Maintain Investigative Confidentiality When the Nature of the Questions You’re Asking Basically Tells People What You’re Investigating?
Natalie Lynch is your credentialed investigator and licensed attorney, not a vlogger. How do you maintain investigative confidentiality when the nature of the questions you’re asking basically tells people what you’re investigating? I think this is a little bit less of an issue than it used to be, because people
What Do I Do if Things Get Confusing During a Workplace Investigation?
Natalie Lynch is your credentialed investigator and licensed attorney, not a vlogger. What do I do if there is so much going on in an investigation that facts are getting jumbled in my head? I’m above average intelligence, or else I wouldn’t be an attorney. I’m sure you are, too.
What Do I Do to Investigate the Way Someone Eats During a Workplace Investigation?
Natalie Lynch is your credentialed investigator and licensed attorney, not a vlogger. What do you do with an investigation about the way somebody is eating? So again, another tricky one. Obviously, we’re going to collect our information from our reporting party and see what it is about this eating that’s
What Do I Do If the Investigation Is a He Said, She Said During a Workplace Investigation?
Natalie Lynch is your credentialed investigator and licensed attorney, not a vlogger. What do you do when there are no witnesses or when there’s he said, she said? That’s hard. Parts of that you may or may not be able to determine. It’s just the nature of there not being
What Do I Do If the Client Tries to Control the Investigation During a Workplace Investigation?
What do you do when the client tries to control your investigation? You needed to remind the client that the money they’re spending is related to a neutral, independent, third-party investigation. That being said, some people are just micromanagers by nature, and that may include your client representative. And so
What Do I Do to Admonish an Accused During a Workplace Investigation?
What do I do with an accused individual? What do I tell them? The accused is always the last interview I do, unless there’s some weird logistical thing going on. But I tell them that they are the accused individual. And generally, they’ve been notified somewhere along the way
What Do I Do to Investigate People Talking Over Each Other at Meetings During a Workplace Investigation?
Natalie Lynch is a credentialed investigator and licensed attorney, not a vlogger. What if you need to do an investigation into somebody talking over other people? So, probably in a meeting, if somebody’s talking over people, if that’s our complaint, like anything, we’ve got to start by defining it. So,
Employee Severance Agreements
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What do I do if someone is in crisis during a workplace investigation?
I think the biggest thing you do is to stay in your lane. Many investigations are done by people with mental health backgrounds. And if they have a slightly different lane than I do as an attorney, that seems appropriate. But at the end of the day, I’m also human,
Is My Business Ready for the PWFA? What You Need to Know
The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act: What Your HR Department Needs to Know If your HR department is up to speed, then you know the Pregnancy Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) was signed into law in December 2022, and its measures became active as of June 27, 2023 for businesses with 15
