What can we do to ensure the quality of our investigations? So particularly when you’re in-house, and I suppose I’m speaking to somebody in a leadership role, but if you’ve got a team of investigators, who are making sure that your investigators are doing a good job? Even if those
What do you do if your investigation involves the use of different pronouns? I’m recording this video in July of 2021 and hoping that this is the video that ages the worst because we make so much societal progress here. As an investigator, I think the first thing you do
What do you do when the complaining party is not an employee? The same thing that you do anyway. So, you investigate those complaints because it doesn’t matter who makes the complaint. You as an employer are now on notice that you have a harasser, discriminator, or bad actor in
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When large organizations are considering mass staff layoffs, they are generally bound by the terms of the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act. The WARN Act provides that companies give the population of soon-to-be terminated workers notice of their pending termination. The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act Enacted in
The importance of having a written employment contract that details the agreement between the employer and an employee cannot be overstated. Employment agreements provide a written account of the terms of the relationship and give both parties a clear understanding of their responsibilities and obligations during employment. Terms of an
How do you prove up perceptions? So perceptions are hard to prove, because they tend not to have a legal definition and because they are open to perceptions. So saying that somebody is inappropriate is a great example. Everybody has a different definition of what is and is not appropriate
What do you do to prevent gossip? In my initial admonishments, we tell people things like, “we’ll ask that you maintain a professional level of confidentiality.” And I’ll often say, “As you can imagine, if gossip starts, it depletes the quality of the investigation that I’m trying to do. And,
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