Workplace investigations: Elephant in the room
Nearly every general counsel will sooner or later face the need to conduct an internal investigation into events at an organization, a dark art that presents unique challenges.
Nearly every general counsel will sooner or later face the need to conduct an internal investigation into events at an organization, a dark art that presents unique challenges.
Emboldened by the groundbreaking #MeToo and #TimesUp movements, growing numbers of women are speaking out — and that’s making organizations skittish, more so because they are under growing pressure to take a zero-tolerance approach to unacceptable comportment in the workplace.
Workplace investigations are “intrinsically linked to an employer’s exercise of power in matters of management and discipline,” rules the Quebec appeal court.