Employee Investigations
Pre-employment screening
Screening employees helps mitigate risk and ensures you make the right choice of candidate for positions. Our experience has taught us just how severe the consequences of not properly checking the backgrounds of staff members can be. The number of investigations we have conducted as a result of clients failing to conduct pre-employement checks is astonishing; often the effects of these failures run into the thousands and far beyond. For a relatively small fee, we can give you peace of mind.
In a recent case, a senior member of staff of our client (on a 6 figure sum) was performing far below expectation. Through conducting a thorough background check, we discovered the employee, who was losing the company a large amount of money had greatly over-exaggerated his previous experience (conveniently forgetting to mention his previous company went into administration). Whilst our investigation was a great success, the client could have saved themselves several million pounds by performing a simple background checks.
Employee Absenteeism
Long-term sick costs UK businesses and estimated £3.1bn each year according to unum.co.uk. For many companies, the combined cost of sick pay and the cost of replacement staff can cripple cash-flow. We have witnessesed an increase in employees fraudulently claiming sick leave and finding second employment elsewhere, effectively doubling their income. We can provide a surveillance solution to validate sick claims or catch staff defrauding your business.
Theft, Fraud& Stock Shrinkage
In recent years, internal theft has risen dramatically. From employees stealing directly from tills through to elaborate financial fraud, companies regularly suffer massive financial losses, with many cases going un-noticed.
Our past cases have included supermarket staff obtaining customer account details, cash theft in a simple but effective manner which made detection near impossible, financial fraud of lease agreements and internal staff benefiting from insurance fraud relating to company assets- which they later sold onto friends and even ebay!
