Workplace Misconduct Investigation Services
Deal with sensitive internal matters in an independent, confidential manner
Protect your human and financial resources from workplace misconduct
Workplace misconduct is a common occurrence and can impact your organization’s human and financial resources. Bullying, harassment, and other types of misconduct can affect the health and wellbeing of your employees — and have a significant impact on absenteeism, culture, productivity, and tenure within your organization.
Financial misconduct or corruption can disrupt your operations, affect your reputation, and impact your financial reporting. Corruption can lead to significant financial losses, disrupting cashflow and potentially threatening your company’s stability. The fallout from such misconduct often includes legal action, regulatory scrutiny, and hefty fines, which can further strain resources.
MNP’s Forensics and Litigation Support Services team can help you deal with sensitive internal matters in an independent, confidential manner. We have decades of experience to meet the standards of litigation, regulatory bodies, contractual obligations, and internal policies. Our team can help you navigate your obligations, preliminary assessment, concepts of fairness, and timelines. We can provide a thorough investigation when dealing with anonymous complaints or rumours in the workplace.
What’s your challenge?
Establishing a strong culture
A strong workplace culture establishes clear expectations for behaviour and encourages open communication. However, it can be challenging to understand how to create or improve your workplace culture to protect against workplace misconduct.
Detecting misconduct issues
Workplace misconduct is often hidden from view. This makes it difficult to identify and prove workplace misconduct before it escalates into a severe issue that may result in reputational damage, legal liability, or financial loss.
Navigating your legal obligations
Navigating your legal obligations while investigating claims of workplace misconduct can be challenging. It is crucial to navigate a complex legal framework effectively to ensure compliance and prevent litigation.
Conducting fair investigations
Your organization needs to balance the rights and interests of both the complainant and the accused during an investigation into workplace misconduct. Additionally, ensuring confidentiality, maintaining impartiality, and gathering evidence are necessary to conduct a fair investigation.
How we help
Effective tools and templates
Failing to complete an investigation could result in reputational, insurance, and litigation risk. Our team provides tools and templates such as an employee checklist, sample investigation policy, and sample code of conduct policy to help you navigate and complete your investigation.
Ethics alert hotline
Provide your employees and contractors with an avenue to make discrete complaints through our Ethics Alert Hotline, an independent 24/7/365 service.
Experienced investigators
Experience is crucial to support your investigation. Our team can help you navigate a complex legal framework, ensure due process and fairness, and meet the standards of litigation, regulatory bodies, contractual obligations, and internal policies.
Frequently Asked Questions
It is crucial to handle sensitive information with the utmost confidentiality. Measures include securing communication channels, restricting access to investigation materials to authorized personnel only, and ensuring that all investigative activities are discreet and respect privacy.
A workplace investigation policy should outline the procedures for reporting misconduct, describe the investigation process, detail confidentiality protocols, and specify how findings will be addressed. It should also state the commitment to fairness and non-retaliation for those who report misconduct.
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