Sentences with phrase «workplace investigations there»

Workplace Investigations There are many circumstances mandating an investigation of workplace issues, including allegations of harassment, discrimination, vandalism, or a safety issue.

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And behind every fallen offender and hostile workplace, it seems, there is a complicit HR department — the executor of a liability - avoidance strategy that ticks all the boxes (cookie - cutter antidiscrimination training, a perfunctory investigations process, silencing arbitration, and nondisclosure agreements).

If the case does go to trial, there is also the potential that the Holder report — which came out of an investigation into the company's overall cultural and workplace issues — will become public as part of discovery.

«To the contrary, we believe that it is in the interest of good government and working women that there is full accountability and transparency about workplace sex harassment and that there should be full investigations of accusations of workplace harassment.»

«We believe that it is in the interest of good government and working women that there is full accountability and transparency about workplace sex harassment and that there should be full investigations of accusations of workplace harassment,» Allred said in a statement issued a few hours before Silver's.

Response: There have been no guidelines issued by the MOL in connection with the procedural and qualitative aspects of workplace harassment investigations — whether under current provisions or the Bill 132 amendments.

Employers should conduct workplace investigations because they may have a legal duty to do so, because there may be practical consequences for failing to do so, and because conducting a workplace investigations can help mitigate risk.

Where there are suspicions of workplace harassment, employers have an obligation to properly conduct an investigation into these allegations regardless of whether the complaint is formal or informal.

Where there is no express right to suspend, an administrative suspension pending the outcome of a workplace investigation — often imposed to maintain the integrity of the investigation — could be reasonable and justified grounds based on the Potter framework.

However, a question arises as to whether an employer will have breached the Ontario Human Rights Code («Code») if it fails to investigate a complaint of workplace discrimination even though, had it conducted a proper investigation, it would have found that there was no discrimination.