Push It Over the Goal Line: Gathering and Weighing the Preponderance of the Evidence in Workplace Investigations, CALPELRA Annual Conference, co-presented with Susan Arduengo (Arduengo Investigations), November 2024 The Room Where It Happened: Investigating Complex Sexual Harassment Cases, Association of Workplace Investigators (AWI) Annual Conference, co-presented with Elena Acevedo (Intuit), Lindsay Ingham (Ingham Law Corp.), […]

Co-Authored by Megan Amanda Miller, Esq., Law Offices of Megan Amanda Miller and Christina Dixon, Esq., Aecus Law. As external investigators, we often have our own ideas about what constitutes a prompt, thorough, and impartial investigation.  At the same time, we are conducting investigations on behalf of employers with their own practices, methods, and expectations

Despite a longstanding prohibition on workplace harassment, the number of harassment charges the EEOC receives remains relatively high, comprising approximately one third of all EEOC charges.  [FN 1]  In light of this phenomenon, the EEOC formed a “Select Task Force” (Task Force) in January 2015 to explore and critique the effectiveness of current employer harassment