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Workplace Investigations: Principles and Practice (2nd edition)
An essential guide for HR professionals, employment lawyers and workplace investigators
Edited by: Paula Hoctor, founder and Principal of Q Workplace Solutions, and Kerryn Treadwell, Q Workplace Solutions Workplace Investigator and Practice Leader.
Written by: A team of highly experienced legal and investigations professionals.
Workplace Investigations: Principles and Practice details fundamental legal principles and accepted practices and processes for workplace investigations.
The text covers in detail the responsibilities of investigators and employers as well as common problems they may face. Additionally, six chapters are dedicated to the examination of specialised investigations such as bullying and sexual harassment allegations.
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- How to determine whether an investigation is warranted
- How to plan and manage an investigation
- Meeting procedural fairness requirements
- How to deal with evidence
- Conducting an interview
- Report writing
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This book should be applauded for providing a much-needed best-practise guide for workplace investigations. Whilst the focus is undoubtedly on the obligations and duties of employers and investigators, the book’s detailed analysis and discussion about the workplace investigations model generally should prove useful to anybody engaged in the process.
Sarah Ford
Associate Gilshenan & Luton Legal Practice, and
Member of the Queensland Law Society Occupational Discipline Law Committee
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To date, there has been no comprehensive “how to” guide for workplace investigators which establishes professional and ethical standards, whether they be internal or external. There is no independent supervision of workplace investigators by which the community can repose trust and confidence in their integrity and competence. I very much welcome this work to highlight and address this gap and hope that it contributes positively to the discourse regarding regulation of the workplace investigation industry in addition to providing internal investigators with the appropriate tools and reference point to discharge their obligations and manage risk for their organisation.
Alice De Boos
Managing Partner – Kingston Reid
May I congratulate Paula Hoctor, Michael Robertson and their colleagues at Q Workplace Solutions in producing such a valuable, insightful and user-friendly book on workplace investigations.
John H.C.Colvin
Consultant Herbert Smith Freehills,
Adjunct Professor University of Sydney
Adjunct Professor University of Sydney
Hoctor and Robertson’s book guides the reader usefully through the applicability of the rules of natural justice/procedural fairness to the workplace investigation context.
Ian Freckelton QC