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Internal theft, high-risk terminations, hiring checks, fraud and workplace investigations: from first suspicion to a file that survives scrutiny.
Field Notes for employers
- Internal Theft: Building a Case That Survives a Wrongful Dismissal Claim What an employer must prove for just cause, the first 48 hours, and the ESA wilful misconduct trap.
- Planning a High-Risk Termination: What Employers Get Wrong Risk assessment, meeting logistics, access revocation, and the OHSA duties employers miss until the day of.
- Pre-Employment Due Diligence Without Breaching PIPEDA Consent, purpose and proportionality, social media screening, and staging checks so the intrusive ones come last.
- Background Checks in Ontario: What’s Legal, What’s Available The three police record check types, what the 2018 reform restricted, and your rights as the subject.
- How to Spot Employee Fraud Before It Costs You Warning signs owners miss, and why the first days after a suspicion matter more than anything that follows.
- Penetration Testing vs a Security Audit: What Testing Actually Reveals An audit tells you what your policies say. A test tells you what happens when someone actually tries to get in.
- What Open-Source Intelligence Actually Means for a Business Where OSINT earns its keep in corporate work, and the legal line between screening and snooping.
- WSIB Surveillance: What Employers and Claimants Should Know What it looks for, how evidence holds up at a hearing, and the privacy rights claimants keep.
The law that governs the work
- WSIB claim surveillance: what is allowed and what holds up How surveillance fits Ontario’s workplace-injury framework, and what survives adjudication and appeal.
- PIPEDA and lawful surveillance The default rule of consent, the narrow investigative exception, and what it does not cover.
- Recording conversations in Ontario: the one-party consent rule When recording a conversation is lawful, what counts as unlawful interception, and the caveats that matter.
- Is it legal to hire a private investigator in Ontario? What a licensed PI can lawfully do, what nobody may do, and where the lines sit.
Services businesses retain
- Workplace Investigations Harassment, theft and misconduct cases, built for procedural fairness.
- Employee Theft Investigation Confirming internal theft before acting, without creating wrongful dismissal exposure.
- Undercover Investigations Licensed operatives placed inside a workplace or situation to see what’s really happening.
- High-Risk Terminations Planning and on-site support by certified Workplace Violence and Threats Specialists.
- Background Checks Employment, tenancy, personal and corporate due diligence, run inside Ontario’s consent rules.
- Penetration Testing Physical, cyber and social-engineering testing.
- TSCM and Counter-Surveillance Finding hidden cameras, microphones and GPS trackers.
- WSIB Investigations Workplace injury claim verification for Ontario employers and insurers.
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