What Does It Mean to Be Fired for Misconduct?

When an employee is fired for misconduct, it means they deliberately acted in ways that negatively impact their employer. For example, employees who watch porn in the office, negatively talk about their employer on social media, harass other employees, and many other unethical behaviors.

How Can Computer Forensics Help With an Employee Misconduct Investigation?

Computer forensics can be the best tool in a workplace to find a disgruntled employee and find evidence of wrongdoing against a company. Everything is stored digitally nowadays, and a digital forensics expert can investigate and delve into an employee's digital life in their work place to find out details in order to stop the disgruntled employee from causing anymore damage.

Are Fired Employees Required to Pay Back Training Fees?

This depends on the contract you signed upon employment. If the contract states you need to repay training costs, then you must repay those. However, if it is not stated in the contract, you will not be liable to repay those costs.

Employee Misconduct Investigation

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Employee Misconduct Forensic Investigations

Secure Forensics has the experience and knowledge to investigate your employee misconduct suspicions.

How Much Damage Can an Employee’s Improper Behavior or Misconduct Affect Your Daily Business Activities?

An employee’s bad behavior and misconduct in the workplace can have lasting negative impacts on your business’s production and reputation.

Here are several examples and signs an employee is disregarding your employee misconduct policy:

Purposely Deleting Important Information

Selling Information to a Competitor

Purposely Breaking Company Devices & Property

Health Insurance Billing Fraud Investigation

Inappropriate Messages to Coworkers

Disclosing of Confidential Data Online

Digital Harassment of Coworkers

Persistent
Lateness

Playing Video Games
While At Work

Fortunately, Secure Forensics can help you discover, document, and preserve digital evidence to prove employee misconduct in the workplace.

Steps to Take When You Suspect an Employee of Misconduct

In most situations, there is a protocol to follow before terminating an employee due to misconduct.

Some of the steps to take to mitigate employee misconduct in order include:

Verbal Warning

Most companies will issue a verbal warning the employee’s conduct or performance is not meeting the standards of the employer.

Documented Written Warning

If an employee continues to engage in misconduct after a verbal warning, a documented warning with an employee signature would be the next step.

Suspension and Reprimanding

An employer will suspend and reprimand a misbehaving employee who either engages in egregious misconduct or has been warned multiple times about their misconduct previously.

Termination

Although an employer can terminate their employees at any time for any kind of misconduct, termination is usually reserved for when none of the above have worked.

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Termination of an employee is usually cut and dry if these are documented correctly and with the correct proof. Lack of proof or documentation can result in lawsuits and legal battles. Fortunately Secure Forensics can help you by finding digital proof of employee misconduct in order to justify termination or prepare for a legal defense of termination.

Digital Forensics Offers Simple Solutions for Employee Misconduct

It’s not enough to suspect an employee is engaging in employee misconduct. Before disciplinary actions due to speculation, you need evidence and proof. Secure Forensics can perform a variety of services either remote or onsite to discover employee misconduct.

Here are the steps Secure Forensics will take to help prove employee misconduct:

Discuss Concerns Of What Occurred
Ensure HR & IT Policies are Up-to-date Ahead of Time
Ensure Policies Permit the Investigation
Discuss Location of Misconduct — Onsite or Remotely

Plan The Investigation
Gather Info – Messages, Interviews, Browser History, etc
Evaluate and Document the Evidence
Provide The Employer With Evidence

If you are a business and are thinking of firing or terminating an employee; or already have then an employee misconduct investigation may be right for you. These misconduct investigations can save companies millions of dollars and make sure their reputation is not tarnished with a frivolous lawsuit.

Misconduct Investigation for Wrongfully Terminated Employees

Employees who feel they are wrongfully fired due to misconduct accusations can also conduct their own investigations. In some situations, an employee might feel that their employer targeted them or manipulated the truth to terminate them. Wrongful termination is difficult to prove, but a digital forensic investigation can help. With a thorough investigation, Secure Forensics can help determine if the firing is legal or if their employer violated employment law.

Some of the reasons for wrongful termination include:

Firing As a Form of
Sexual Harassment

Firing An Employee Who Files a Complaint Against Employer

Firing Employee Due to Age, Disability, Sexual Orientation, Gender, Race, Religion

An employer seeking retaliation or aiming to terminate an employee might stuff the browsing history of the victim’s computer to show unethical search results, purposely delete files to frame someone, and more. Secure Forensics can help to discover the truth.

Frequently Asked Questions About Disgruntled Employee Investigations

Below are answers and questions created specifically about our forensic services related to disgruntled employees.

Unemployment benefits are temporary for ex-employees, however, they are not guaranteed. Employees must be eligible for unemployment benefits. To be eligible, an employee must have earned $4,700 in four completed calendar quarters, be legally authorized to work in the United States, be physically able to work, not be unemployed because of their own mistakes, and be actively looking for new employment. Still, it is the employment laws of your state that determine whether or not you can qualify for unemployment benefits.

Right to Work states only benefit the employer. For example, a manager can fire any employee at will for many different reasons. There are 27 states that are Right to Work states. These states are: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Wisconsin, West Virginia, and Wyoming.

Yes and no. An employer can decide when they want to terminate an employee for many reasons as long as they are legal and reasonable. An employee misconduct investigation can help reinforce the fact that the employee was fired for the correct reasons. There are obvious reasons where an employee can take legal action including termination based on nationality, religion, age, sexual orientation, or gender.

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Employee Misconduct Investigation

Employee Misconduct Forensic Investigations

Secure Forensics has the experience and knowledge to investigate your employee misconduct suspicions.