Below is an interesting article regarding staff honesty, ‘time theft’ and the impact they can have on you as an employer and the organisation you run.

Surmount Investigations offers a HUGE amount of investigatory and security consultancy support to you as an employer – CV and background checks, undercover work, surveillance, covert recording, disciplinary support. But it is imperative that any and all is done in line with Employment Law and your requirements to the ICO.

Your only true guarantee that you’re going to get that is by working with a trained, qualified investigator who is a committed member of the ABI. 

At Surmount, we go even one step further:

We work with your HR department throughout the process of any of our services and if you don’t have an HR department we have specialist independent HR consultants we partner with to support your needs and ensure we are working in compliance with Employment Law, Equalities Act and the like.

http://www.theabi.org.uk/n…/are-your-employees-stealing-time

Recently, we worked with a large delivery company who suspected their drivers were deliberately corrupting the in-built tracking monitors on the company vehicles and spending time ‘off job’. We worked with the organisation to monitor the drivers in question and we brought in an independent HR consultant to work alongside us and the client to make sure that our investigatory actions were lawfully compliant.

Overtime we came to discover drivers were purposefully damaging the tracking devices across a number of vehicles to suggest that there was a larger issue with the ‘brand’ of tracking device itself. What they were actually doing was driving ‘off-route’ and meeting at a service station some miles out where they would convene together as a group and spend long periods of time in service eateries and smoking outside.

We reported our findings back to our client with photographic and video evidence and worked alongside the HR consultant to interview each of the drivers in line with the company’s own in-house disciplinary policies and procedures.

Do YOU have an employee that you suspect is defrauding your company through their own conduct and/or through ‘time mismanagement’? Contact us TODAY for a free consultation at enquiries@surmount-investigations.co.uk.