The AIRO Investigative Institute offers its services to companies aimed at protecting their assets and resources.

One of the types of investigations requested by companies involves the search and documentation of evidence to be presented in court to certify the possible systematic and unjustified absenteeism of the employee.

The term absenteeism refers to a social phenomenon that is very widespread today, which, in the workplace, concerns the behavior of workers who systematically absent themselves from work without there actually being conditions that justify their absence.
In large companies, absenteeism negatively affects both the company's economy and the workers. In fact, in the presence of absentee employees, the company tends to lose productivity due to the modification of work schedules and the replacement of the absent worker or workers.

Absenteeism from work can manifest in various forms. It can occur in the case of an employee who makes excessive use of paid leave or sick leave, or in the scenario of an employee who, absent from work, is covered by colleagues or takes unjustified absences, or even, in some cases, the absentee employee goes to perform another job, sometimes in competition with the company they work for.
The employee may have also opted for "tactical absenteeism" (as identified by the Court of Cassation with Sentence No. 18678 of September 4, 2014), repeating absences, even within the same month, always linked to days off from work, effectively making their work performance inadequate from a productive standpoint and therefore detrimental to their company.

According to Italian regulations, the mere fact of being unjustifiably absent from work does not justify the disciplinary dismissal of the employee. However, they may be dismissed for just cause (therefore without notice) if their conduct is deemed so serious that it does not allow for the continuation of work, even temporarily, as the trust between the employee and employer has been broken.

Therefore, for the purpose of establishing evidence certifying the employee's absenteeism, it is common practice, moreover endorsed in various instances by the Supreme Court, to turn to private investigative agencies to ascertain the worker's shortcomings.

CONTACT US