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Labor/Employment

Jun. 9, 2011

Justifiable Cynicism and Employment Investigations

A superficial investigation may be worse than no review at all. By Leslie McAdams of Ferguson Case Orr Paterson LLP


By Leslie McAdam


You could never properly review a movie by reading the review of other critics and not seeing the entire movie yourself. And yet that is how many employers treat employment investigations: a superficial analysis suffices to generate a sufficient amount of paperwork to give the veneer of a respectable investigation. No one asks the employee what happened. In other words, no one went to see the movie before writing the critique. But a superficial i...

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