Whether you are an internal or external investigator, this webinar will provide insight on how to incorporate principles of a trauma-informed approach into your investigative practices.
During the course of this webinar, a panel of experienced workplace investigators will take AWI members’ questions. Panelists, Lisa Bowman, Dinamary Horvath, and Judy Mims, will bring their unique perspectives and experiences as external, internal, and private workplace investigators to the issues facing AWI members today.
By the end of this webinar, participants will: learn the new risk drivers for virtual and remote workplace wrongdoing, explore the extension of the “workplace” and employers’ harassment and violence protection obligations to their employees, and understand what types of investigations they will be called upon to do under the “new normal.”
This session will cover the legal framework governing municipal employment complaints and investigations, including the complexities of confidentiality in the context of open meetings and open records laws.
This webinar will explore the factors Canadian adjudicators examine in determining whether a workplace investigation is covered by legal privilege and when an employer may want to assert or waive any potential privilege claim. Using real life examples, participants will also come away with an understanding of some of the procedural steps they must adhere to if they wish to have a workplace investigation withstand scrutiny by Canadian adjudicators.
We will discuss the Family and Educational Rights Privacy Act and how it is implicated in investigations; mandated reporting and Lybarger admonitions; and the laws and rules that govern the discipline of certificated employees and what they mean to the investigation report.
This webinar will explore the ethical issues that in-house attorneys, external counsel, investigators and plaintiffs' or complainants' attorney face when conducting, supervising and representing parties in workplace investigations.