Florida has joined a small number of states, including Georgia and Tennessee, to pass legislation that prohibits business owners from implementing policies that restrict employees and others from bringing legally-licensed firearms onto their property. On April 15, 2008, Florida Governor Charlie Crist signed into law legislation that will allow employees to bring firearms onto company [...]

I have received a great deal of feedback from readers regarding my thoughts on pretexting. Additionally, I have also heard from many members of the investigative community, most of whom are outraged by the position (or lack there of) taken by ASIS International. One such individual is Ms. Kitty Hailey, CLI, a long-time friend and [...]

According to the Associated Press, “work has resumed at a western Kentucky plastics plant where an employee shot five people dead and killed himself early Wednesday morning. Police say 25-year-old Wesley N. Higdon fatally shot his supervisor and four others early Wednesday and then turned the gun on himself. Another person was wounded in the [...]

A couple of posts ago I wrote about TJX Companies (the operator of TJ Maxx, Marshalls, and a number of other retail chains) and its decision to fire an employee for allegedly disclosing confidential information. Nick Benson, an employee at the TJ Maxx outlet in Lawrence, Kansas, had complained to management that coworkers could access [...]

Last month the giant retailer, TJX Companies (operator of TJ Maxx and Marshalls among others) fired an employee for allegedly disclosing confidential information regarding what he considered lax security procedures. According to widely published reports, Nick Benson, an employee at the TJ Maxx outlet in Lawrence, Kansas, had complained to management that coworkers could access [...]

Two of the first books written on the topic of undercover investigations in the workplace had chapters dedicated to investigating workplace gambling. Authors, Charles Sennewald and Kirk Barefoot agreed, employee gambling was a big problem and deserved the attention of every employer. Their books, both written almost thirty years ago are almost comical in their [...]