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By Belle Yuan, HR consultant, Strategywise HR | 6 Minutes Read January 3, 2023

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.

Article by Belle Yuan, HR consultant, Strategywise HR / Employee Relations, Employment Standards, Health and Safety / bullying, employment law, fairness, harassment, harassment complaints, mental health, occupational health and safety, procedural fairness, workplace harassment, workplace investigations Leave a Comment

By Doug MacLeod, MacLeod Law Firm | 3 Minutes Read December 13, 2022

Doug’s top 5 employment law stories of 2022

Top 5 employment law stories for 2022: Temporary layoffs related to COVID, mandatory vaccine policy just cause for termination, disconnecting from work and electronic monitoring policies, employment contracts, and secretly tape recording workplace conversations.

Article by Doug MacLeod, MacLeod Law Firm / Employment Standards, Health and Safety, Human Rights, Payroll / disconnecting from work policy, duty to accommodate, electronic monitoring policy, employment contract, employment law, employment standards act, Just cause termination, layoff, mandatory vaccine policy, recorded conversations, termination, wrongful dismissal Leave a Comment

By Belle Yuan, HR consultant, Strategywise HR | 6 Minutes Read December 6, 2022

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.

Article by Belle Yuan, HR consultant, Strategywise HR / Employee Relations, Health and Safety / bullying, employment law, harassment, harassment complaint, investigation, mental health, workplace harassment, workplace harassment policy, workplace violence policy Leave a Comment

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