This week’s blog is: Investigations – How they can go wrong

Friday August 15, 2025

When you put a group of employees together in a team there will be, at times, fallings out.

If a falling out is serious enough, you will need to conduct a workplace investigation – one part of your disciplinary and grievance process.

For you, running an SME business, this could be time-consuming, costly and frustrating; even if you get it right. Any investigation is complex, requiring a technical procedure underpinned by the Acas code of practice on disciplinary and grievance procedures. “Full and fair” are of paramount importance in Acas’s eyes.

In this blog, we will look at a fictional case study of a workplace investigation gone wrong; with expert tips to show how we would have intervened to do it correctly: https://www.hrdept.co.uk/central-dorset-and-south-west-wiltshire/blog/investigations-how-they-can-go-wrong

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