November 5, 2021 Today Treaty Oak ELG is rolling out the firm’s Land Acknowledgement Statement: We give special thanks to the Jumanos, Tonkawa, Lipan Apache, Coahuiltecan, Wichita, and Comanche people and all Indigenous Peoples and communities whose land now supports our office building. We give thanks to them and express
4 Reasons to Consider Sexual Harassment Prevention Training From VHS tapes to interactive computer modules, sexual harassment training has been presented in a number of ways. Yet, workplace harassment remains a problem for many HR managers and businesses. Movements like #MeToo and #TimesUp also bring greater attention to this persistent
New 2021 Survey Finds Some Employers Will Fire Employees Who Refuse to Return to Work Pollfish, an online survey platform, and Digital.com, find the results of their recent survey unprecedented. Nationwide, 39 percent of employers would fire employees who refused to return to their on-site jobs. Another 40 percent said they
What do I do to determine credibility? There is literally no way that I can answer this in a short blog. I am not a mental health professional. I don’t have extensive policing training, I’m not credentialed to run a lie detector, and it’s pretty likely that you are not
Sometimes people that I’m interviewing ask who is paying me. I guess that’s fair, they seem sometimes concerned that because the employer is paying me as an independent third-party investigator, that I am going to be biased in favor of the employer. And I suppose superficially, that makes sense, but
It’s easy if someone doesn’t want to participate in an interview with you. You need to make sure that this is true, but generally it is. When someone doesn’t want to talk to me, doesn’t want to be interviewed, I just say, “Your employer expects you to participate and are
What do you do if you don’t know if you can investigate something? If you ultimately determine that you shouldn’t investigate something, you shouldn’t. The consequences are huge for you and the client. If you’re too busy, something like that, just walk away and say, “I’m too busy. I’m so
What do you do if somebody reports to you that their evidence of discrimination is through a series of microaggressions? At the time of filming this, this most often comes up with folks that have less than ten years of experience in the workforce. Additionally, people who tend to work
What do you do if you don’t find out what happened to the people involved in an investigation when you’re done? Congratulations, you have now been initiated to one of the most frustrating parts of being a workplace investigator, especially as a third-party investigator. Even when I had repeat clients,
What do you do if you don’t know what to charge for an investigation? There’s a couple of issues here. First of all, the attorney code of ethics in your state will have something to say about what to charge, if you are not an expert in the thing that
