INVESTIGATING FRAUDULENT SICKNESS

INVESTIGATING FRAUDULENT SICKNESS

surveillance photographerIt is important for us within our line of work – when investigating issues surrounding employee absence and staff sickness around Newcastle and the whole of the North East – to be very clear about where we stand as a company professionally, ethically and legally in the face of ‘cowboys’ offering to “deal with” those “staff members off sick that are costing you money”.

Should “long term sickness” be placed into the hands of professional investigation services? No.

Do Surmount Investigations take on investigations into an employee’s “long term sickness”? To put it bluntly, no.

We investigate employees on behalf of their employers for a multitude of reasons (potential criminal conduct, harassment, unsafe practice, behaviour threatening to the company reputation, etc.) and that can include FRAUDULENT sickness. Read more about INVESTIGATING FRAUDULENT SICKNESS

Investigating “Long Term Sickness”

Investigating “Long Term Sickness”

We posted this recently on our social media pages and it drew such a positive response and an increase in enquiries into our services that we decided to move it over to give it its own space on the Surmount blog.

Last week we noticed a lot of negative feedback online but specifically on LinkedIn to a rather disreputable ‘investigation consultancy’ company and comments / posts that they made on the topic of investigating “long term sickness”. Here at Surmount, we wanted to step into the ring on what proved on LinkedIn to be a particularly contentious topic and show you where we stand.

Specifically where we stand as a company professionally, ethically and legally in the face of such ‘cowboys’ offering to “deal with” those “staff members off sick that are costing you money”. Read more about Investigating “Long Term Sickness”