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Learn how to conduct workplace investigations. Allowing harassment to continue unchecked is never the right ethical decision, nor is it wise from a business perspective. Planning and carrying out an investigation can be daunting, but it's vitally important to your company's employees, culture, and reputation. The Essential Guide to Workplace Investigations provides step-by-step guidance that will help you come up with a game plan, gather evidence, question witnesses, and take action if necessary. If you hire an outside investigator, it will help you understand the investigator's work and findings. This book will help any manager, supervisor, or Human Resources professional sort out workplace problems quickly and effectively. Use this affordable, step-by-step guide to investigate, document, and resolve every kind of workplace problem, from discrimination and harassment to employee theft, workplace violence, and substance abuse. Written by a former employment lawyer, the Essential Guide to Workplace Investigations provides employers with the tools they need to conduct effective workplace investigations. Learn how to: decide whether to investigate choose an investigator conduct interviews and gather evidence evaluate the evidence document the investigation, and take action and follow up. This thorough guide provides the forms, sample policies, checklists, and sample documentation that employers need to conduct a successful investigation that will stand up in court. In addition, this book addresses remote work and how to use virtual communication tools to conduct investigations. This edition also incorporates the latest legal developments in employment law, including updated 50-state charts on common workplace issues, Supreme Court decisions on discrimination and harassment, and more. Plus, you can download forms online.

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"""Packed with tips and strategies that will help sort out workplace problems quickly and legally."" HR Magazine ""Everything an employer needs to know about investigating and resolving workplace complaints and issues is packed into this book, making it a top recommendation for any business library strong in human resources guides. It's the first on the market to teach businesses how to investigate and resolve all types of complains, from harassment and discrimination to workplace violence and employee theft, and walks the manager through ten basic steps from the initial decision to investigate to interviewing, gathering and evaluating evidence, and taking action. All business libraries need this."" California Bookwatch ""Guerin, an employment law specialist and author, offers a guide to investigating and resolving workplace complaints or problems, focusing on harassment, discrimination, violence, drug and alcohol use, and employee theft. She describes the steps for the investigation of any kind of problem, common investigation mistakes, discovering problems, deciding whether to investigate, choosing an investigator, planning the investigation, gathering information, making and documenting the decision about whether misconduct occurred, and ten steps for investigating each type of problem."" Eithne O'Leyne, Editor, Ringgold, Inc., ProtoView Author comment: In the past year, the #MeToo movement has rocked workplaces from Hollywood and Congress to news networks, restaurants, manufacturing plants, and more. It has also spurred many important public and private conversations about the cost of sexual harassment on (mostly) women's careers, earning potential, safety, and self-esteem. Again and again, we've heard stories about complaints being downplayed, harassers being allowed to continue abusing employees with impunity, and victims facing retaliation for coming forward. Allowing harassment to continue unchecked is never the right ethical decision, nor is it wise from a business perspective. Planning and carrying out an investigation can be daunting, but it's vitally important to your company's employees, culture, and reputation. This book provides step-by-step guidance that will help you come up with a game plan, gather evidence, question witnesses, and take action if necessary. If you hire an outside investigator, it will help you understand the investigator's work and findings. With a separate chapter devoted solely to investigating harassment claims, this book will help you with what might be today's most pressing workplace issue."

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The Editors of Nolo include over 20 editors and a team of researchers. Most of Nolo's editors left careers as practicing lawyers in favor of furthering the company's mission: Getting legal information into the hands of people who need it.

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