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Conducting Workplace Investigations

Conducting Workplace Investigations

Cost:

See Below

Location:

Dublin Airport

Start Date:

13 October 2010

End Date:

13 October 2010
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Full Day

This event has been designed to provide participants with a detailed overview of how to conduct a workplace investigation. Special reference will be made to an investigation into an allegation of bullying harassment. Delivered by a combination of a highly experienced lawyer and leading workplace investigator, this seminar features both best practice and reference to latest case law on the subject.

Description

What will I get out of this Event?

As a result of attending this event you will:

  • Obtain the knowledge to avoid the pitfalls which may arise from workplace investigations
  • Understand and can apply the knowledge to enable you to organise a fair and sensitive investigation into an allegation of harassment and bullying

What will be covered in this Event?

  • Setting the scene with matters related to bullying at work
  • Why bullying is a concern for employers – the legal perspective
  • Best practice in dealing with bullying and harassment claims
  • The legal aspects of conducting workplace investigations
  • Report writing and post-investigation issues
  • Alternatives for early dispute resolution

Who Should Attend?

  • Employers
  • Senior Managers
  • Investigation Officers
  • HR Professionals

Duration ~ Date ~ Location

Full Day Seminar/Interactive Event: 9:30am – 4:30pm
Wednesday 13th October 2010
Radisson Blu Hotel, Dublin Airport

Cost

Standard Rate: €395 ~ Charity Rate: €295

All organisations with fewer than 50 employees or registered charities (registered at the time of booking) qualify for the Charity Rate. The number of employees includes all branches, subsidiary/parent companies, boards, trusts and federated organisations.

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Here's what delegates from the Conducting Workplace Investigations Event earlier this year had to say:

“All of the presenters were great – giving professional presentations, backed up with an excellent knowledge base. A very good learning atmosphere, coupled with good facilities and excellent organisation, made this a very good event.” Anthony Cotter, Irish Prison Service

“Excellent venue and three expert presenters who shared experiences of how to manage investigation issues as they arise.” Pauline Murphy, Co Dublin VEC

Facilitators

Gerry Rooney – Polaris HR

Gerry Rooney is Managing Director of Polaris HR Ltd. As a qualified Human Resources practitioner, Gerry holds an MSc in Human Resource Development, is a Corporate Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, is a member of the Irish Institute of Training and Development and as a trained mediator is a practising member of the Association for Conflict Resolution.  Gerry is an Advanced Practitioner in Workplace Mediation with the International Centre for Dispute Resolution at Sullivan University, Louisville, Kentucky.  He is a member of the MII panel of mediators under the Civil Liability Act, 2004.  Gerry has also presented on alternative dispute resolution for the workplace in America.  He lectures for the NCI off campus faculty in Industrial Relations and HRM.  Gerry is also a member of the National Panel of Equality Auditors for the Equality Authority. He has extensive experience in HR management roles, having worked on a variety of projects for public and private sector clients.

Carol Fawsitt – Partner, Hayes Solicitors

Carol Fawsitt is a Partner and Head of the Employment Law Department in Hayes solicitors, having merged her practice, which specialised in Employment Law, with Hayes in December 2006.  Carol combines busy practice with appointments to public and private bodies. She was a Board Member of the Equality Authority and Chairman of the Authority’s Legal Committee from 1998 to 2007.  She was also Chair of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal.  She has almost 30 years extensive experience advising and representing both employees and employers, Companies, Trade Unions and Staff Associations on all contentious employment issues arising from the workplace.  She has represented employees in some of the State’s leading employment cases in the High and Supreme Courts.

Breda O’Malley – Partner, Hayes Solicitors

Breda O'Malley trained with Hayes Solicitors, a medium sized city firm which  specialises in employment, commercial, competition and medico-legal work.  From 1996 to 2008, she worked in one of the "Big 5"

Irish law firms, where she practised for 8 years in the Employment Group (dispute resolution, litigation, industrial relations, general advisory and corporate transactions) and for 4 years in the Corporate Department working on commercial transactions and general commercial advisory work.

Breda returned to Hayes as a partner in 2008 and continues to represent both employers and employees.

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