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Navigating workplace investigations: Your top FAQs answered

By Cristina Wendel, Taylor Holland, and Victoria Merritt
October 19, 2023
  • Workplace investigations
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On Tuesday, September 19, 2023, Dentons employment team held a webinar where they answered the most common questions about workplace investigations, from how to handle participation from a ‘support’ person, to whether you can start an investigation when the respondent is on a leave of absence.

Watch the webinar here.

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Cristina Wendel

About Cristina Wendel

Cristina Wendel practices employment and labour law from Dentons’ Edmonton office. Cristina advises and represents employers in all aspects of occupational health and safety matters, including day-to-day compliance, incident response, investigations and defending employers charged with occupational health and safety offences. She also represents federally and provincially regulated, unionized and non-unionized employers in a variety of employment and labour law matters such as wrongful dismissal claims, employment standards disputes, human rights issues, labour arbitrations and labour relations board proceedings.

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Taylor Holland

About Taylor Holland

Taylor Holland (She/Her/Hers) is a senior associate in the Employment and Labour group at Dentons. Taylor provides strategic advice to employers in both unionized and non-unionized settings. Taylor has experience with wrongful and constructive dismissal actions, grievance arbitrations, unfair labour practice complaints, fiduciary and restrictive covenant disputes, determination applications, human rights complaints, employment standards complaints and appeals, Canada Labour Code complaints, defamation actions, and privacy complaints. She also assists employers with the preparation and drafting of workplace policies, procedures, and agreements.

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Victoria Merritt

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Victoria Merritt is an associate in the Employment and Labour group in the Dentons Vancouver office.

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