Treaty Oak Employers’ Law Blog

What do I do if I have an issue around discrimination or harassment, but I’m a super small employer? In the state of Texas, in particular, you go investigate that because as of September 1st of 2021 employers with even one employee, per state law need to investigate sexual harassment

What do you do if you have a concern about scope creep? Scope creep is dangerous. It’s the concept that you started out investigating this thing, and as the investigation has gone, the scope of the investigation has crept outwards. It can be an issue for a lot of reasons

Okay. What do you do if you are interviewing somebody you genuinely dislike? That can be a natural thing. I’ve interviewed rapists, people who have said mean and nasty things about me or even to me. Those people are not the kind of people I tend to like, but at

What do you do about recording your interviews? I do not, as a practice, record my interviews unless my client tells me that it is their practice to record interviews. Generally speaking, in the pre-pandemic era, a recording meant an audio recording; these days, we would do that with an

What do I do to investigate slut-shaming? So, it’s been my experience that people who are experiencing slut-shaming… First of all, you need to of course get the reporting party to define what they mean by that. But generally, the idea that somebody’s sexual activities are not in align with

What do you do if you suspect someone secretly recording your investigation? First, you should always assume that people are secretly recording your investigation. Every single one that you’ve ever done, you should assume it’s secretly being recorded. I also do this in my initial admonishments where I say, “Hey,

What do you do if you receive an admission? Suppose you’re going into an accused interview and you have reason to suspect that you’re going to receive an admission and it’s about something that is, or the concrete, or rather likely to go to litigation. In that case, you might

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