Treaty Oak Employers’ Law Blog

What do you do when you don’t receive an admission? This is probably the much more likely outcome of an investigation around something like a Title VII or ADEA-type issue. People just don’t think that their own behavior ever rises to the level of being harassment, discrimination, or a hostile

What do you do if you are asked by somebody involved in the investigation about the progress of your investigation? It’s happened a couple of times to me that I’ve been at a workplace and maybe I’ve left the interview room and somebody that I’ve interviewed sees me and says,

What do you do if there’s no policy related to the issue that you’re investigating? People get caught up in this and it doesn’t really concern me one way or the other. If a client has hired me to investigate a thing, I’m going to go investigate that. Sometimes, particularly

How do we investigate bias? Bias is sometimes used as a soft word for discrimination, but at the end of the day, we are trying to measure if people are treated differently, either by a system that’s implemented or by direct managerial input of a human. So, regardless of if

What do we do if we have a biased witness?  Probably most of our witnesses are biased and we need to work around that because that is part of human nature. And we also need to identify it. So, maybe everybody told me that Bob stole the truck on Tuesday,

What do I do when I’m approaching a witness? Witnesses need to be comfortable with us as investigators. We need to get witnesses comfortable enough to schedule with us and then open up to us later. And so one of the things that we often tell people is, “Hi, my

What do you do after you write your written reports? You get it edited. I’ve heard some people say things like, “Nothing goes out our door unless it’s been thoroughly reviewed by six sets of eyes.” I think mine’s closer to four sets of eyes. But it does get pretty

What do you do after your last interview? Probably your last interview was your accused. Sometimes you may have to circle around with somebody and do a second interview, but generally speaking, your last interview is your accused. You need to be running towards having results for your client, right?

What do you do after you talked to the reporting party? Generally, I checked in with my client contacts, confirmed to them that that interview did happen, and let them know any updates about scope. So, if the reporting party’s concern was misreported to you, through the process of getting