Verification and Monitoring of Abusive Sick Leave or Workplace Accident Claims

Fraudulent absenteeism and abuse of disability or sickness insurance benefits (LAA / loss of earnings insurance) disrupt your teams and represent a significant financial burden for the employer.

If you have serious doubts (rumors, troubling coincidences, refusal to attend medical check-ups) regarding the legitimacy of an employee’s incapacity for work, our agency is authorized to conduct discreet investigations. We verify whether the individual’s actual activities are consistent with the declared medical condition, or whether the leave is being used to engage in undeclared gainful employment or leisure activities incompatible with the claimed health status.

When doubts are well-founded and documented, we implement an appropriate surveillance strategy:

• Discreet surveillance and tracking: Observation of the employee’s activities outside their residence in order to assess their actual physical capabilities.
• Evidence of undeclared activity: Documentation of illegal employment, whether working for a third party, self-employed, or for a competitor during the period of sick leave.
• Collection of testimonies: Neighborhood or professional inquiries where the situation requires it.
• Digital monitoring (OSINT): Analysis of social media and publicly available information that may demonstrate physical activity incompatible with the prescribed leave.

Swiss case law recognizes the employer’s right to have an employee monitored by a private investigator when there are concrete and well-founded suspicions of abuse, provided that the measure is proportionate.

Our agency documents each observation with time-stamped visual evidence (photographs or videos taken from public spaces). We provide you with a detailed and objective investigation report, which can be used before labor courts to justify immediate dismissal for breach of trust or to suspend the payment of daily allowances.