Workplace Investigations: A Step-by-Step Guide
An accurate workplace investigation can address problems quickly, limit legal falout and encourage employee trust in your organization’s leadership.
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Abbey Collins
HR Business Partner
Abbey has over a decade of experience in HR and a vast knowledge of blue collar and mining industries. Her areas of speciality include payroll knowledge, recruitment drives and EA interpretation.
Get to know Abbey
What motivates you?
Helping people understand the value in partnering with HR rather than seeing us as just a function.
What phrase is most likely to come out of your mouth on any given day
Yep, perfect
Historical person you’d most like to spend a day with and why?
Not very historical but I would have loved to spend the day with Anthony Bourdain – famous American chef his way of cooking and seeing the worlds foods through a different way always intrigued me.
Explain HR to a five-year-old
HR is like an umbrella that you use to protect yourself when its raining. I see HR as the over arching function of a business with all the other functions/ departments falling in underneath.
How do you spend your weekends?
In Summer, you’ll find me trying to sunbake but most likely chasing after my son, in the winter I’m tied to the lounge hibernating drinking red wine.
Favourite TV show?
I’m a killer for a doctor show – Grey’s anatomy, New Amsterdam, Scrubs, but then do a 360 for some Yellow Stone
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