employers call on private investigators to deal with the fraud of their employees

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J.Vitaline, E.Bonnasse, M.Selli, M.Renier, C.Cormery, E.Noël – France 2

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If telework has become commonplace since the health crisis, absences are no less suspicious. Some employers, confronted with the sick leave of their employees, seem more and more inclined to check whether they are indeed cloistered at home. Private detective firms have never been so much in demand.

Nicolas Bilbao is a private detective. A shadow job which he agreed to show in the 20 Hours one of the backstage: the tracking of abusive sick leaves. The companies that employ him suspect their employees of working for others, when they are supposed to be at rest. Nicolas Bilbao goes for a client to an address where two employees of a wholesale business, arrested for back pain, are in fact in great shape, moonlighting at a competitor’s. The investigator is responsible for discreetly collecting the evidence with his cameras.

Passing in front of the company, Nicolas Bilbao spots one of the employees he is tracking. The detective does not have the right to follow him inside the company, but his identification is already an important first step in this investigation which is only just beginning. Construction companies are regularly victims of these frauds. Private investigators are also called upon for cases of telework fraud, corporate theft or unfair competition.


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