For best investigative results, travel fraud audits should be performed by an employer on at least a yearly basis if possible. The reason for this is that major hotels routinely purge their systems on a 6-month to yearly basis, so
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Fraud: Investigating Procurement Card Abuse
“charge card fraud”, “credit card fraud”, “P-Card fraud”, “Pcard fraud”, “procurement card fraud”, “purchasing card fraud”
Credibility Determinations: EEOC Guidelines on Harassment Investigations
In sexual harassment investigations, it is often the case that harassment occurs behind closed doors, with no witnesses, and it becomes a “he said-she said” scenario. Instead of reaching a finding that the allegations were “sustained”, “not sustained”, or “unfounded”,
Duty to Reasonably Accommodate 100% Totally & Permanently Disabled Employee
Cuiellette v. City of Los Angeles (Case No. B224303, Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Apr. 22, 2011) is a reminder to employers that simply because an employee (in this case, a police officer) has been rated as 100% totally
Gender Identity Discrimination Investigations
On October 9, 2011, Governor Jerry Brown signed into law AB 887, which prohibits discrimination based on “a person’s gender-related appearance and behavior whether or not stereotypically associated with the person’s assigned sex at birth.” The law will take
Genetic Information Discrimination Investigations in California
California Senate Bill 559, a civil rights protection bill was signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown in September 2011, and will go into effect on January 1, 2012. The new law will protect Californians by prohibiting discrimination based on
Discrimination Investigation: Good Resource Book
I attended a presentation today at the 29th Labor & Employment Law Section Annual Conference where Andrew Friedman of Helmer Friedman in Venice, CA, was one of the speakers. Mr. Friedman typically represents employees in employment disputes; however, he
CAOWI Annual Conference November 13-15, 2011
Readers may already know that I am on the Board of the California Association of Workplace Investigators (“CAOWI”). I wanted to tell you about our Second Annual Conference that is coming up this November 2011, and let you know about
Workplace Investigation Training in Los Angeles
I wanted to let my readers know that I will be conducting training on how to conduct defensible (aka “bulletproof”) workplace investigations.
The California Association of Workplace Investigators and The State Bar of California Labor and Employment Law Section are
Reduction in Force-Not a Slam Dunk Defense
EEO Investigators should examine all kinds of evidence in an investigation: direct evidence, circumstantial evidence, and statistical evidence (if possible, but usually not practical if expert opinion is required). In a recent 9th Circuit case (EEOC v. The