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Article #325:

Keywords: Liability And Productivity

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If you own, manage or otherwise have a employee's assigned company vehicle for
vested interest in a company or business, one week to establish a pattern; the
be it large or small, two words accompany second step would be to conduct live
every decision you make: liability and surveillance with video documentation.
productivity. They are on opposite sides These methods are obvious in resolving
of the scale, but such as the use of a the misconduct issue at hand, but what
scale would indicate, balance is the key. may not be so obvious is the affect this
The goal is to limit liability and action would have on other employees.
increase productivity. From an Studies have shown that companies that
investigator's perspective, here are a take an aggressive stance on worker's
couple ways you can do that: comp fraud have seen a decrease in
General employee conduct investigations claims. The reason for that is simple:
can save a company huge expenses when the employee knows if he/she makes a
speaking of liability. Case in point: claim, there's a good chance they'll be
While conducting an insurance placed under surveillance at some point
surveillance of a female who was in time. That alone deters many false
unemployed due to a personal injury claims, especially if a company is
claim, my investigator observed an willing to prosecute or dismiss employees
individual arrive at her residence in a once the claim is proven false. That is
clearly-marked company vehicle, a company only part of the equation though.
which had nothing to do with this An example I like to use is how in law
female's claim or prior employment. My enforcement we utilized decoys to combat
investigator followed and documented the prostitution. First, the prostitutes
actions of these two as they traveled themselves are arrested. Second, the
into an adjacent state and back before decoys are used to arrest would-be
returning to her apartment. In short, the customers, otherwise known as johns. The
male (married to someone other than this media is alerted so that word spreads and
female we were watching) spent half of this becomes the deterrent. The otherwise
his work day with this female, much of it law-abiding citizen driving home after a
in the privacy of her residence. Not only couple drinks who might be tempted by the
did he waste his employer's money, short-skirted prostitute on the corner
thereby limiting productivity, he placed will remember the decoys and stings as he
the company at substantial risk by chooses to follow his moral compass and
violating insurance regulations of having stay on course.
her in the company vehicle, thereby In the case of the straying employee
raising liability. Remember, this was a described in this article, chances are if
person who was already engaged in he had any idea which direction his life
personal injury litigation; she is the was about to turn, he would have
last person an employer would want riding immediately discontinued his activities.
in the company vehicle. Finally, consider the affect this has on
There are several ways a company can the other employees: once an example is
detect this type of employee misconduct, made of the employee in violation, others
obtain indisputable evidence to be used will always remember the sting, so to
in disciplinary hearings or court, and speak. Routine integrity checks are a
most importantly, deter others from great way to solidify the employer's
engaging in similar conduct. stance on misconduct. Occasionally
In this case I recommended to the general deploying tracking devices in a random
manager of the company a two-stage fashion-and letting that fact be
investigation: the first would be to known-can do wonders for the integrity of
deploy a tracking device on the your workforce.






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