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4 Reasons to support Respectful Workplace Training in the face of DEI Backlash

January 21, 2025 | By Lori-Ann Green

While we are probably best known for conducting and supporting investigations and providing investigation training, our firm’s passion is elevating workplace culture overall. One of the ways we do that is by facilitating Respectful Workplace Training (RWT) – while often narrowly viewed as harassment and discrimination training, RWT more broadly refers to any “training that will provide [workers] with information intended to help foster a respectful workplace.”

Twelve tips for conducting workplace investigation interviews virtually

January 9, 2025 | By Zoë King

I sometimes find it hard to believe that we are already coming up to the fifth anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic forcing us to quickly learn to work online. Here at RT, we remember having to rapidly adjust to conducting investigation interviews virtually (meaning by videoconference or telephone). Up to that point, most workplace investigation interviews were conducted in-person.

Top 10 Tips for writing faster in 2025

December 18, 2024 | By Heather Shields

One of my favorite traditions this time of year is reviewing the annual top 10 lists. These lists are fun to read but also inspiring, filling me with the hope that I will somehow manage to watch all the top movies, read the best books, and binge the must-see TV series from 2024.

Who is impartial? Reflections on Toronto Metropolitan Faculty Association v. Toronto Metropolitan University

December 18, 2024 | By Elizabeth Bingham

One of our core responsibilities as workplace investigators is to be impartial. The reasons for this are probably obvious: if we were to conduct an investigation with a predetermined idea of the outcome, or if we were to favour one party over the other, our investigation would not be fair, and participants would have no reason to trust in the integrity of the investigation process.

Does your organization have investigation overwhelm? Here’s how you can tell.

December 10, 2024 | By Liliane Gingras

There is no question that internal investigations are resource intensive. They need to be done fast, but thoroughly. They need to be done by people who have an appropriate skill level. Parties to an investigation need to be treated fairly and in a manner that is trauma informed.

One size doesn’t fit all when it comes to investigating employee misconduct

November 19, 2024 | By Liliane Gingras

In my last blog, I wrote about different types of employee misconduct, other than harassment and discrimination, that may warrant an investigation; for example, conflicts of interest, time theft, fraud, and the disclosure of confidential information.

Vos politiques sont-elles utiles? Parcours à travers une politique type de respect en milieu de travail

November 5, 2024 | By Christine Thomlinson, | By Lori-Ann Green, | By Frédérick J. Doucet

Dans la plupart des juridictions canadiennes, les employeurs sont tenus d’adopter des politiques visant à traiter d’enjeux comme le harcèlement, la discrimination et la violence en milieu de travail. Notre travail d’enquête nous mène à lire beaucoup de ces politiques de « respect au travail » et il appert que la grande majorité d’entre elles sont clairement rédigées dans le but de se conformer aux exigences législatives.

Too old, too young, and too in-between – no age is the right age for working women

November 4, 2024 | By Heather Shields

If you have encountered an allegation of ageism while conducting a workplace investigation, chances are that it involved an older employee who was passed over in favour of someone younger.

Serious insight for serious situations.