Have there been threats made against your employees, management or the business / store location? These can come from customers, fellow employees, competitors, random acts of violence, break-ins.
Bishop and Associates can provide a wide range of services from undercover employees to plainclothes security within the business as well as private investigators working to determine the source of the threat or make contact and evaluate the nature and serious of the threat and the ability to carry out the threat. The private investigators will also work in conjunction with the security team on-site and management providing them with updated information.
Are you worried about employee(s) becoming upset or hostile during a termination? Is it an individual employee being fired for due cause that he doesn't agree with or a group of employees because of performance issues? Is it a mass layoff that the employees are upset about, layoff that is denying employees their retirement benefits in a couple of years, or a business closing due to financial restructuring that is an unexpected announcement and only giving employees a couple weeks severance pay, if any?
One of the greatest challenges that human resources have to face and corporate management have to deal with is the threat of workplace violence following an employee's termination. Whether the threat involves physical violence, harassment, intimidation, or other threatening disruptive behavior that occurs at your organization, it can affect employees, clients, visitors, morale, and productivity alike. The majority of all workplace-related acts of violence have occurred during or soon-after the firing process, you and your organization should be fully prepared for whatever situation arises.
Recent litigation and court rules have made it clear that employers must provide a safe work environment for their employees. An improperly handled termination that spirals out of control and isn't handled properly puts your company and employees at high risk and in situations that may possibly result in tragic and unfortunate losses.
Bishop and Associates will meet with management and HR personnel to review what is known about the employee(s) to the terminated, the issues or reasons that cause management and HR concerns and how best to mitigate them.
Bishop and Associates can discretely have security personnel onsite during the termination proceeding so that no-one except management knows that they are there; they can be disguised as as HR trainee's, personnel from corporate watching the local HR team in action, or a new employee just settling into a desk / office next to HR office, managers office or conference room where the termination is to take place.
If necessary Bishop and Associates can also take a more active security role and escort the employee to or from his termination meeting, to his desk as he packs his personal belongings and then from the premises. We are trained in de-escalation techniques, and non-violent confrontation strategies. We can also provide a surveillance team on the ex-employee once he leaves the facility, along with active security detail for the facility or executive protection details for HR, facility/plant management or corporate management.
Don't let the numbers or accounting dictate the company response or how long Bishop and Associates will be on-site.
An example - Because of numbers, we were not allowed to do surveillance on a recently terminated employee who had made threats of coming back to the facility. No one had been able to make contact with the ex-employee and after a week, the small security team we had been allowed was pulled. 4 hours later the ex-employee showed up, armed at the facility, banging on the doors, scaring employees. He left before the police arrived. We were QUICKLY called back to the site.
As with the recent shooting in Virginia on May 31, 2019 at the Virginia Beach Municipal Complex, even with security in the building and with a police station and a sheriff office both 2 blocks away a disgruntled employee was able to shoot fellow employees on three different stories of the municipal complex and outside in the parking lot before being engaged by police.