Investigations Best Practices Episode 3: The Truth About Retaliation

Investigating a workplace incident or complaint is important to protecting employees and your organization. But if you don't work to prevent retaliation against a reporter, you're allowing another, potentially more damaging, issue to slip by. In this session, Meric Bloch, Principal at Winter Investigations, explains values, fundamentals, procedural justice, and other standards to ensure that a workplace investigation is conducted ethically. He'll discuss how an investigator can minimize the risks of a retaliation claim, how to assess a retaliation claim, the relevant areas of inquiry to investigate the claim, and identifying perception of retaliation claims. This webinar covers the following key topics: • The components of an ethical investigation • The elements of procedural justice that exist in an ethical investigation • The duties of an investigator when conducting an ethical investigation • The entitlements and responsibilities of both the employee under investigation, as well as the employee who made the complaint regarding actual or suspected misconduct After watching this session, attendees should be able to understand: • Ethical components of an investigation • Elements of procedural justice • Each of an investigator’s duties when conducting a workplace investigation. • Entitlements and responsibilities of both the employee under investigation, as well as the employee who made the complaint regarding actual or suspected misconduct This webinar is episode three of Meric Bloch’s Investigations Best Practices series with Case IQ. Check out the series page to watch the other sessions, too!