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Workplace Investigations
Providing expert guidance on workplace investigations, ensuring compliance with legislation, procedural fairness, and resolution of issues while protecting the rights of all parties involved.
Independent Workplace Investigations
Investigation Process
Providing independent investigation of workplace issues in accordance with procedural fairness, relevant industrial instruments and the Fair Work Act.
Workplace Misconduct
Our investigation service covers allegations of sexual harassment, workplace bullying, discrimination, serious misconduct, informal complaints, employee conduct issues, inappropriate behaviour, and interpersonal conflict.
External Investigators
Benefit from our expertise and impartiality by using our investigators who have extensive experience managing workplace issues at all levels from employees through to senior executives.
Workplace Investigation Services
Workplace investigations are conducted to address allegations of misconduct, harassment, discrimination, or other violations of employment contracts, company policies or laws. These investigations aim to gather information, statements and evidence, interview relevant parties, and make factual determinations to inform disciplinary actions, findings and recommendations for corrective measures. Investigators follow an unbiased process, ensuring procedural fairness, confidentiality and sensitivity to all involved parties. Consultants may collaborate with your Human Resource team during the process, and can assist in all documentation and reporting including allegation letters, findings, outcome reports, written warnings and dismissal notifications.
- Serious misconduct, safety breaches, drug and alcohol, employee incidents
- Workplace bullying, harassment, sexual harassment, discrimination
- Fraud, theft, misuse of company property, code of conduct issues.
- Complaints, grievances, conduct matters, culture, interpersonal conflict.
Workplace Investigation Options
End to end Independent Investigator
Use our investigation services as an external party to fully investigate and write a factual report on any workplace and employee relations issues.
Support with Employer Response
Helping your organisation respond to adverse action, unfair dismissal or other employee claims from the Fair Work or Human Rights Commission.
Consultation and Advice
Providing expertise and guidance to your internal team when dealing with investigations. Including procedural fairness, the process and required standard for investigating complaints and determining the most suitable outcome.
Why choose us?
Practical, tailored advice and support
Every client is different, and each matter is unique. Our approach is to offer advice and support that best meets the needs of your business.
Expertise working with all client types
We work with large, global multinationals, mid-size businesses, small family-run companies and start-ups across all industry sectors. As specialists in Employee Relations, we have vast experience managing a wide range of employee matters.
Holistic HR and IR solutions
Our HR and IR services encompass the entire employee relations lifecycle. From individual employment contracts and policy development to workforce consultation, and negotiating enterprise agreements.
What Our Clients Say
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About Us
At Employee Relations Expertise, we believe in providing customised solutions that meet the specific needs of each client. Whether it’s developing Industrial Relations strategies, negotiating enterprise agreements, managing performance, conducting employee investigations, or any other employee relations challenge, we have the expertise to assist you.
Our specialised coaching and advice, particularly in environments with strong union presence and resistance to change, have enabled our clients to optimise business performance while cultivating stronger and more positive relationships with their employees. Trust us to be your partner in navigating the complexities of employee relations and achieving success for your organisation.
Related Services
HR Consulting
Comprehensive Human Resource consulting services offering guidance in Employee Relations, company culture, performance counselling, talent management, organisational optimisation, change and policy frameworks.
Leadership & Workplace Coach
Partnering with leadership teams, empowering them with the right knowledge, tools and skills to confidently manage HR issues with their employees.
Performance Management Consultant
Providing expert coaching and support to HR teams and line managers to deal with confidence in their responsibilities, process, documents, and procedures for managing performance improvement.
Whistleblower Protections
HR consultants can determine whether your company needs a Whistleblower Policy as a safe and confidential channel for raising concerns about wrongdoing. In addition, Employee Relations Expertise offers a Whistleblower external reporting service.
HR Policy
Our HR professionals help clients with developing and refreshing policy and compliance frameworks that align to your business and employee culture.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes employers can be held vicariously liable for sexual harassment and bullying behaviour. In addition to our investigation services, we can help you with policy frameworks and training to mitigate this risk.
Yes we have experience with investigation into reports and complaints of misconduct of senior employees at all levels. We are also experienced at writing reports for investigations ‘under privilege’ with leading law firms.
Yes. We can support employer’s with step by step coaching through the investigation process.
Yes. Following any investigation we will provide the employer with a written report with substantiated and/or unsubstantiated findings to allegations.
Yes. We provide advocacy in conciliation and arbitration if required.
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