I remember shortly after joining the in-house legal team at a Fortune 500 company 20+ years ago, a co-worker taking me to lunch and saying, “don’t trust HR; they are the company spies.” Over the years as I built a … Continue reading
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In 2012, the Association of Workplace Investigators (“AWI”) released its Guiding Principles for Conducting Impartial Workplace Investigations. The AWI is a nonprofit with a stated mission “to promote and support workplace investigations as a distinct area of expertise and to … Continue reading
One of the most important and often most challenging tasks of the workplace investigator is to make credibility determinations about witnesses. Over the years, a common mistake I’ve seen investigators make in investigating allegations of workplace misconduct is failing to … Continue reading