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Belle Yuan, HR consultant, Strategywise HR

About Belle Yuan, HR consultant, Strategywise HR

Belle Yuan is the founder of Strategywise HR, a boutique HR consulting firm that specializes in conducting impartial workplace investigations and advising employers and HR leaders on how best to reduce employment risks and costs when it comes to managing staff in today’s complex workplaces. As a certified human resources leader (CHRL), she brings over 20 years of specialist expertise in employee/labour relations to help her clients avoid costly mistakes that impacts operational success and the bottom-line. If you have any questions, feel free to reach her at 905-879-9994 or via email [email protected]. For more information, please visit strategywisehr.ca.

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Ensuring fairness and thoroughness in workplace investigations

In continuation from Part 1 of our blog series on how best to approach harassment complaints, we will now focus on stage 2 of the process as we examine how best to conduct a fair and thorough investigation, following a workplace complaint.

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You’ve got a harassment complaint, so what now?

These days, allegations of “harassment” or “bullying” can make people tense up very quickly. Understandably so as reputations are at stake and missteps can be costly – like, in the landmark case of Boucher v. Walmart Canada Corp where the retailer was ordered to pay damages totalling $410,000 plus 20 weeks’ salary for conducting a shoddy in-house investigation following allegations of workplace bullying and harassment.

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