That's a very important part of the process. You're going to get a lot of strong reaction, one way or the other, from the employees in your workplace as well. Generally, in my experience, when anyone comes forward, there always will be camps of employees with regard to the complainant versus the respondent. In order for the entire process to be respected, the confidentiality and dignity of everybody involved needs to be respected and encouraged. That includes no gossiping, not talking about it, not coming to judgment about decisions.
We need to go through our process. We need to apply natural justice. We live in a democracy. We have a criminal justice system in which you are innocent until proven guilty, and that is something everybody—the stakeholders, the employers, the employees—all need to grasp and hold onto to ensure this is all done right. If we go too far to one extreme or the other, we'll undermine the entire process.