WEBINAR: 2026 Employment Relations Masterclass Workplace Training Series – Workplace Investigations

Piper Alderman is pleased to continue its programming for the 2026 Masterclass Workplace Training Series. The series includes workshops conducted by our nationally recognised experts in Employment Relations, offering comprehensive training solutions.

We provide the necessary skills transfer to ensure that your organisation is developing the capability of its own people and not relying on bringing in expertise where it may not be necessary to do so.

Workplace Investigations

When allegations of misconduct are raised in the workplace, it typically leads to multiple competing considerations for a business to manage, including safeguarding procedural fairness, managing psychosocial risks, and ensuring an appropriate fact-finding process occurs.

The Workplace Investigations training course aims to equip participants with practical tools to navigate that complexity. The course will cover key elements of the investigative process to assist participants to assess complaints, conduct effective interviews, consider the evidence, and make sound investigation findings.

This workshop will cover:

• When to conduct workplace investigations
• Who should conduct investigations
• Planning the investigation
• Managing conflicts of interest and perceptions of bias
• When to consider engaging an external investigator
• Best-practice investigation methods
• How to deal with common side tracks and complicated scenarios
• Managing unions, lawyers and support persons through the process
• Managing privacy and associated issues with evidence gathering techniques
• Concluding investigations, including making findings and initiating disciplinary action

The workshops are tailored for:

• HR Executives
• HR and IR Managers
• Business Owners
• People and Culture Managers
• Directors
• Legal counsel
• HR Business partners
• and anyone responsible for managing employees or dealing with workplace complaints.

Our training sessions are designed to be interactive and allow participants to ask questions of the facilitator. The sessions are not recorded for privacy reasons.