{"id":5472,"date":"2011-07-01T10:03:10","date_gmt":"2011-07-01T14:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/?p=5472"},"modified":"2011-08-11T16:14:17","modified_gmt":"2011-08-11T20:14:17","slug":"question-of-the-week-how-do-we-conduct-workplace-investigations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/2011\/07\/question-of-the-week-how-do-we-conduct-workplace-investigations\/","title":{"rendered":"Question of the Week: How Do We Conduct Workplace Investigations?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img alignright size-medium wp-image-5473\" style=\"width:200px;\">\r\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/20110701.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/20110701-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"How Do We Conduct Workplace Investigations?\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>\r\n\t<div>How Do We Conduct Workplace Investigations?<\/div>\r\n<\/div>This week\u2019s question comes from David, an HR Director. One of our department managers received a complaint from an employee that we need to investigate. How do we conduct workplace investigations? Answer: The <em>Workplace Investigations Guide<\/em> can help employers through an investigation based on a complaint from an employee or even a customer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prompt Investigation and Corrective Action Are Critical<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Prompt investigation and appropriate corrective action may be necessary for situations such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An employee or non-employee complains to a manager about alleged harassment or discrimination personally experienced or observed by the individual.<\/li>\n<li>A manager directly observes employee conduct which violates certain company policies.<\/li>\n<li>An employer receives a formal EEOC charge even if no employee complaint was made to management prior to the charge.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>How the <em>Workplace Investigations Guide<\/em> Can Help<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The <em>Workplace Investigations Guide<\/em> not only provides general guidelines to follow, it provides useful tips in the following areas:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Interviewing the Complainant<\/li>\n<li>Interviewing the Accused<\/li>\n<li>Interviewing the Witnesses<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Download the <em>Workplace Investigations Guide<\/em> Now<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The <em>Workplace Investigations Guide<\/em> can be downloaded from the Forms area in the \u201cEssentials\u201d tab section of the <a href=\"http:\/\/visionpayroll.myhrsupportcenter.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">MyHRSupportCenter<\/a>. If you\u2019re not yet signed up or would like a free trial of <a href=\"http:\/\/visionpayroll.myhrsupportcenter.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">MyHRSupportCenter<\/a>, contact <a href=\"mailto:info@visionpayroll.com\" target=\"_blank\">Vision Payroll<\/a> today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Do We Conduct Workplace Investigations? This week\u2019s question comes from David, an HR Director. One of our department managers received a complaint from an employee that we need to investigate. How do we conduct workplace investigations? Answer: The Workplace Investigations Guide can help employers through an investigation based on a complaint from an employee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[53,44,1556],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5472"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5472"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5796,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5472\/revisions\/5796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}