This is an amendment proposed by our colleague Rosemarie Falk. Essentially, the amendment is designed to ensure that investigations will be completed in a reasonable time. As we saw at the last meeting, the department is not involved in investigations. It must make sure that the process is observed. The goal of this amendment is to establish benchmarks.
Our proposal is to add to the following subsections:
(4.1) The persons who investigate the complaint shall complete the investigation no later than three months after the day on which the complaint has been referred to them.
(4.2) The employee may extend the investigation by no more than 30 days if he or she is of the opinion that more time is required to complete the investigation. The employee may extend the investigation period more than once.
The deadline would be three months and there would be a degree of flexibility in how the process unfolds.