Employee Investigations

Employee misconduct is damaging in any business. GPPI are able to assist, by providing the findings of an investigation, enabling you to making a informed decision on the action you take going forwards.

General Misconduct

These are actions undertaken without harmful intent but will be kept on file as infractions or notes. These include lateness, repeated absence, failure to complete work to an expected standard, or inappropriate behaviour toward co-workers.

Fast actions to deal with such matters can have a positive impact on the rest of the company, coming from the knowledge that a company deals with such matters swiftly before matters are allowed to escalate.

Gross Misconduct

These are actions that are undertaken with intent and are serious enough to immediate dismissal or firing. This can result in severance without pay, the removal of pay in lieu, or even firing without previous offences being recorded. These matters can be as serious as theft, property damage, physical assault, drug and alcohol use, and worse.An employee’s gross misconduct can damage the moral of the workforce and in extreme cases where allegations of abuse against another employee occur, you have a duty of care to investigate these allegations.

Where an employee’s conduct has had an effect on a customer/client, these matters need investigating to establish the facts of the matter, and ensuring the reputation of the company.Investigating gross misconduct within a company gives a clear signal that relays to people both internally and externally that you value the working environment of your employees, whilst at the same time upholding company values.

Undertaking a gross misconduct firing can result in you being left open to legal action or a formal employment complaint against your company if you haven’t conducted the dismissal process appropriately.