Investigations

Fair Employer Investigations of Workplace Misconduct.

It happens to every employer. At some point, an employee comes to a manager, supervisor, or owner and explains that a coworker, or worse, a supervisor, has done something that the reporting employee does not like. The offensive conduct can be as minor as an employee showing up late or as serious as sexual misconduct. […]

Employees Who Never File Complaints about Sexual Harassment But Merely Answer Questions are Protected from Retaliation.

D. Scott Crook - January 26, 2009 - Defenses, Government Employees, Investigations, Retaliation, Sexual Harassment, United States Supreme Court

The United States Supreme Court ruled in Crawford v. Metropolitan Government that a local government employee who answered questions posed to her about a human resource employee’s alleged sexual harassment was protected from retaliation even when she did not file her own complaint about his behavior. The questions came during an internal investigation being conducted […]