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Welcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we are featuring a discussion with Kate Nearpass about how to keep workplace investigations neutral. 

Nearpass, a veteran investigator who recently started her own firm, says neutrality is crucial to building trust into the system and can help avoid further escalation of claims, including litigation.

“Employers who want to have a process like this, who have gone through the not-insignificant hurdle of putting together an office or a team of people who will take these complaints in and look at them, really do want to see the workplace improved,” she says.

“They want their workplaces to be safe and fair. And they want their employees to trust the process. If there is any actual conduct on the part of the investigators that suggests that they are always going to come out in favor of the employer, for example, nobody’s going to trust the process.”

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