Laws, regulations, policies, and procedures strengthen and promote ethical practices and ethical treatment of each member of an employer’s workforce. Unfortunately, even the best systems of control cannot provide absolute safeguards against irregularities. California laws require employers to conduct investigations involving employee reports that include discrimination, sexual harassment or sexual abuse, and retaliation. Additionally, investigations can examine allegations of hostile work environment, policy violations, fraud, and workplace misconduct. Finally, California law describes only three categories of professionals authorized to conduct these investigations.

As licensed private investigators, when you are confronted with allegations of improper or potentially illegal conduct or behavior, Gryphon Workplace Investigations stands ready to assist you in the conduct of thorough, independent, and unbiased investigations both in fact and in appearance. Our investigations uphold the expectations of fairness, objectivity, ethical behavior, and observance of legal and professional standards.

Of course, our portfolio includes the entire suite of industry compliance standards services.

Policies are a series of statements, rules, and assertions which define the organization’s structure. They do this by defining expected behaviors, required actions, and prohibited activities. Procedures are the step-by-step instruction manuals of a related Policy. Procedures describe the specific ways for personnel to perform organizational activities.