GUIDANCE
EMPLOYEE RELATIONS OPERATIONS
Employee relations work begins before a concern becomes a case.
InfraNet helps HR receive concerns, establish ownership, coordinate manager action, connect investigations, preserve the record, and keep sensitive follow-up visible—without replacing human judgment.
SAMPLE ER EVENT
Workplace concern · Open
Illustrative view. InfraNet supports the process; HR retains authority.
THE WORK BETWEEN THE CONVERSATIONS
A concern can be handled informally and still require disciplined follow-through.
Employee relations is not only formal complaints and investigations. It is the daily work of listening, assessing, coaching, documenting, escalating, communicating, and checking what happened next.
CHOOSE THE RIGHT OPERATING PATH
Different concerns require different responses.
The system should help HR organize the response without forcing every concern into a formal investigation.
COACHING
A conduct or performance issue needs expectations and follow-up.
REVIEW
A concern needs fact gathering before the appropriate path is clear.
INVESTIGATION
Allegations require a defined scope and structured inquiry.
CORRECTIVE ACTION
A decision creates approvals, communication, implementation, and monitoring.
FOLLOW-UP
A resolved matter still needs recurrence and retaliation-sensitive attention.
THE ER OPERATING LOOP
Keep the work moving without losing the human context.
InfraNet connects the concern to the actions and history around it, while HR decides what response is fair, appropriate, and supported.
Hear
Capture the concern, source, timing, requested support, and immediate needs.
Assess
Identify risk, connected events, interim action, and the responsible ER path.
Act
Coordinate coaching, manager action, review, investigation, or escalation.
Record
Preserve communications, actions, decisions, evidence, and responsible authority.
Follow up
Confirm completion, employee experience, recurrence, and sensitive timing.
MANAGER ACTION WITH ACCOUNTABILITY
Advice is not complete until the next action is owned.
PREPARE
Turn HR guidance into a clear manager action plan.
Keep purpose, talking points, timing, documents, responsible owner, and follow-up together—without scripting away human judgment.
ASSIGN
Make the next action and due date explicit.
SUPPORT
Keep HR guidance and approved materials accessible.
CONFIRM
Record what occurred and what remains open.
MONITOR
Keep recurrence and sensitive follow-up visible.
ONE CONCERN, CONNECTED WORK
Employee relations rarely stays in one lane.
A concern may connect to investigation, leave, accommodation, safety, separation, unemployment, or retaliation-sensitive timing.
INVESTIGATION
Move from concern to defined allegation, evidence, findings, and remediation.
Explore HR Investigations →ACCOMMODATION
Keep conduct, performance, and work-capacity questions distinct but connected.
RETALIATION RISK
See sensitive timing across protected activity and later action.
SEPARATION
Preserve the operating history needed for later unemployment response.
CASE MANAGEMENT
Carry ownership, evidence, decisions, and follow-up in one record.
AFTER THE APPARENT RESOLUTION
The most important ER work may happen after the meeting ends.
InfraNet can keep the follow-up plan visible so recurrence, implementation gaps, and potentially sensitive timing are not left to memory.
Confirm the promised action occurred
Check whether the concern recurred or changed
Track connected manager or employee communication
Surface later events for authorized human review
HUMAN AUTHORITY, BOUNDED VISIBILITY
InfraNet carries the operating work. HR retains the decision.
InfraNet supports
Concern intake and case structure
Ownership, deadlines, and manager follow-up
Connected investigations and supporting history
Recurrence and timing visibility
People retain
Policy and legal interpretation
Credibility and findings decisions
Corrective and employment action authority
Judgment about fairness and context
BRING ONE ER WORKFLOW
See where manager action, documentation, or follow-up is losing continuity.
InfraNet will map the process and explore where a connected operating layer could support the team.
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