Protect Your Business from Bogus Sick Claims

Bogus sick claims infect the business world and must cost business owners many millions of dollars just throughout North America and Europe if one person I know of who books sick every time he needs extra time to look after personal family chores crops up is any example and he definitely seems to be from the information published in the July 17, 2010 issue of the Vancouver Sun. Fortunately there are ways that business people can fight this according to the reporter, Howard Levitt.

What he suggests in his feature is that employers resort to tactics used by automobile insurers and government agencies such as Work Safe BC which compensate people with workplace related injuries or illnesses . That of course is video surveillance.

Of course you want to make sure such activity is legal in your part of the world in most areas of North America it is perfectly legal to take pictures or videos of people with their permission – so long as those pictures are not going to appear in some magazine for your personal financial gain. Companies and government agencies such as a workers compensation board do this all the time to expose fraudulent claims. And such video evidence, as the discretion of the Court, can even be used in legal proceedings.

In order to protect yourself, however, as the employer there are a few things you want to do to protect yourself when doing this. First, as Levitt points out it is a good idea to have an employment policy in place to makes it very clear that any sick claims must be backed up by solid medical evidence that will be examined by the company's own doctor and that any suspicion of fraudulent claims will be investigated.

Second, if you do resort to using video surveillance (It might be a good idea to hire a private investigator for this.) make sure that you have a qualified and certified health care practitioners examine any video evidence to make sure that it does expose activity that the employee should not be capable of with sick claims he or she has made. The last thing you want to do is use any video evidence gather to deprive honest employees of sick day compensation they need and deserve.





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