Kristine Thomas

Kristine Thomas brings a wealth of private legal practice and in-house HR, legal and investigations experience to Q Workplace Solutions, as well as a life-long professional passion for employment law and creating safe and healthy workplaces. Over her 20-plus year career, Kristine has gained invaluable experience handling all aspects of employee relations, such as enterprise bargaining, employee performance, workplace complaints and conducting and overseeing investigations into all forms of workplace misconduct and misbehaviour. Connect with Kristine on LinkedIn.

What do I do when a complainant wants to remain anonymous?

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KEY TAKEAWAYS: While investigators must carefully consider the wishes of a complainant (who could be a witness or impacted person), confidentiality cannot be guaranteed (even where protections under relevant whistleblower legislation apply as there are exceptions). Procedural fairness requires that respondents be given sufficient detail to allow them to respond to allegations against them. This

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Why this employment generalist became a workplace investigation specialist

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KEY TAKEAWAYS: Advice from an experienced legal and HR senior leader who recently transitioned to specialise in workplace investigations: pursue workplace investigations if you enjoy working with all kinds of people, love digging into the minutiae and have a particular penchant for procedural fairness lawyers and ER practitioners have transferrable skills, in areas such as

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