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Employers should prepare for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to pay more attention to the caliber of their internal investigations into workplace harassment, some employment lawyers said.

Employers whose internal probes of workplace harassment complaints are not found to be sufficiently thorough and impartial could be more likely to face an enforcement action or get hit with orders to undergo remedial training on how to conduct an investigation, lawyers said.

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Charles Toutant

Charles Toutant is a litigation writer for the New Jersey Law Journal.