Employers routinely investigate employee harassment or hostile-work-environment complaints yet inconsistently achieve privilege protection for those investigations. For instance, a Florida employer failed to achieve privilege protection for notes of its investigator—who doubled as an attorney and HR Director—regarding an employee’s FMLA claim. And a North Carolina law firm lost privilege protection
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