Here’s the entire thing if you don’t want to go to that link:

There were a series of accusations about our company last August from a former employee. Immediately following these accusations, LMG hired Roper Greyell - a large Vancouver-based law firm specializing in labor and employment law, to conduct a third-party investigation. Their website describes them as “one of the largest employment and labour law firms in Western Canada.” They work with both private and public sector employers.

To ensure a fair investigation, LMG did not comment or publicly release any data and asked our team members to do the same. Now that the investigation is complete, we’re able to provide a summary of the findings.

The investigation found that:

  • Claims of bullying and harassment were not substantiated.

  • Allegations that sexual harassment were ignored or not addressed were false.

  • Any concerns that were raised were investigated. Furthermore, from reviewing our history, the investigator is confident that if any other concerns had been raised, we would have investigated them.

  • There was no evidence of “abuse of power” or retaliation. The individual involved may not have agreed with our decisions or performance feedback, but our actions were for legitimate work-related purposes, and our business reasons were valid.

  • Allegations of process errors and miscommunication while onboarding this individual were partially substantiated, but the investigator found ample documentary evidence of LMG working to rectify the errors and the individual being treated generously and respectfully. When they had questions, they were responded to and addressed.

In summary, as confirmed by the investigation, the allegations made against the team were largely unfounded, misleading, and unfair.

With all of that said, in the spirit of ongoing improvement, the investigator shared their general recommendation that fast-growing workplaces should invest in continuing professional development. The investigator encouraged us to provide further training to our team about how to raise concerns to reinforce our existing workplace policies.

Prior to receiving this report, LMG solicited anonymous feedback from the team in an effort to ensure there was no unreported bullying and harassment and hosted a training session which reiterated our workplace policies and reinforced our reporting structure. LMG will continue to assess ongoing continuing education for our team.

At this time, we feel our case for a defamation suit would be very strong; however, our deepest wish is to simply put all of this behind us. We hope that will be the case, given the investigator’s clear findings that the allegations made online were misrepresentations of what actually occurred. We will continue to assess if there is persistent reputational damage or further defamation.

This doesn’t mean our company is perfect and our journey is over. We are continuously learning and trying to do better. Thank you all for being part of our community.

  • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    I agree, but in one case it’s a despicable attempt to bury the truth and in the other it is an understandable attempt to set the record straight.

    IMO it’s clear that they are/were in over their heads and doing damage control, but it’s not clear if it’s all deserved. Some of it is, but the sexual harassment stuff was the worst of it that made me go from “I hope they sort their shit out” to “I hope they fail” back when it first came out.

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      5 months ago

      Personally, I didn’t pounce on that. He said, she said…

      This needs to be handled in the courts.

      In personal side, smaller fact did confirm some biases.

      They got the boys having fun that likely offended somebody, fine…

      But that’s no 1 reason why a Union would be good. So from my perspetive thats where they lost me. Because outside of courts, this second best choice for employee who is mistreated to deal with the issue.

      We will never know what went down tho.

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        5 months ago

        Yeah, at this point I don’t know if it’s possible to clear away the doubt one way or another. In another comment I mentioned that strategically her best move would be to call Linus’ defamation bluff because then he’d have to file and win it to make it look like anything other than an intimidation tactic. But that strategy could work even if she is in the wrong because defamation has a high burden of proof. It was a strategic blunder to bring it up at all unless he does have a solid case.