Originally Posted by
The Lev
Are we really surprised? I don't think there is a company in Canada where a portion of their employees don't fear reprisal - be it for reporting safety concerns, harassment, reporting poor management or anything else. It's ingrained in our psyche even if the employer takes steps to ensure confidentiality and does not in fact ever enact any reprisal.
Sure. But that misses the point. It looks like they were not really taking steps to ensure confidentiality.
Some employees felt uncomfortable about submitting a safety report because of the possibility of being interviewed, for the purpose of safety report investigation, by the same person who had the authority to take disciplinary measures.