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By Rubin Thomlinson LLP | 3 Minutes Read January 15, 2020

Unfair Investigation? No Comment.

We are now in a world where workplace harassment is taken much more seriously than it was before. Although some jurisdictions in Canada do not have an explicit legal obligation to investigate incidents of this nature, there is now a pressing moral obligation to do so. But when such a moral obligation is unmoored from legal principles or government-issued guidelines, there is a greater risk of unfairness to all parties. An investigation in this context is more likely to be guided by an emotional drive to either undermine those who raise complaints or persecute those who are alleged to have behaved badly, rather than arriving at factual findings from a neutral perspective using a fair investigation process.

Article by Rubin Thomlinson LLP / Employee Relations, Health and Safety, Payroll / employment law, external investigator, workplace complaints, workplace harassment, workplace investigations

By Norman D. Marks, CPA, CRMA | 5 Minutes Read November 19, 2019

Allegations and investigations

What we should all note from the news is that a failure to perform an appropriate investigation is a serious source of risk to any organization.

Article by Norman D. Marks, CPA, CRMA / Business, Finance and Accounting, Privacy / fear of retaliation, internal audit, investigations, sexual harassment in the workplace, suspected wrongdoing, whistleblower, workplace investigations

By Rubin Thomlinson LLP | 4 Minutes Read November 6, 2019

How an external investigation actually saved money for an employer

A recent Human Rights Tribunal decision demonstrates that the short-term financial costs of an external investigation might also be balanced out by long-term financial savings.

Article by Rubin Thomlinson LLP / Employee Relations, Human Rights, Payroll / discrimination, employment law, harassment, human rights, human rights damages, Workplace Assessments, Workplace discrimination, workplace investigations

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