Workplace
Workplace Mediation
Workplace mediation is a voluntary, confidential, and informal process in which an impartial mediator facilitates communication between parties in order to help resolve disputes. Mediation has several advantages including preserving and enhancing working relationships, through a process that can be timely, creative, and that results in a mutually satisfactory solution. Benefits include:
Building a respectful workplace;
Saving time and expense as compared to formal investigations, courts and tribunals;
Restoring and healing relationships across the organization
Layoffs & Separations
In today’s environment, business survival often means the temporary or permanent layoff of valued employees. This is a difficult and emotional time for all parties. Accord can assist in key areas including:
Mediation of separation packages and wrongful dismissal claims;
Pre-rightsizing advisory services;
Support for the business transition and new operating models
Mediation can also significantly shorten the time needed to resolve matters so that all parties can gain closure and move forward without the stress, emotion and delay of litigation.