Employee Misconduct Investigations in Doral, FL
Cargo walking out the back of the warehouse. A dispatcher taking kickbacks. A driver on FMLA who is driving for someone else. We document it before you act.
Confidential. Your staff will not know we were there.
Fire Someone Without Proof and You Buy a Lawsuit
An owner who suspects an employee is stealing has two bad options: confront with nothing and watch the evidence disappear, or terminate on a hunch and get a wrongful termination or discrimination claim. Wasser Investigations has given Doral businesses a third option since 1985. We document the conduct, lawfully and quietly, so that when you act, HR and your employment attorney have a file behind the decision.
Travis Wasser handles the work himself. He knows Doral’s employers, from the air-cargo facilities on NW 36th Street and the freight forwarders and 3PLs across Airport West to the corporate offices in Downtown Doral, the restaurants at CityPlace, and the medical and professional practices along NW 107th Avenue. And he knows how to work around a warehouse crew that notices any car that does not belong on the block.
Owners, HR, Logistics Managers, and Employment Counsel
You Suspect Something and Need to Know
Inventory shrink that the counts cannot explain, a receiving clerk whose truck is nicer than yours, a warehouse manager who always handles a certain vendor personally, an employee on leave who is working somewhere else. We confirm it or rule it out.
Evidence for Termination, Defense, and Recovery
Independent documentation that supports a termination decision, defends against a wrongful termination or retaliation claim, or backs a civil recovery, an insurance claim, or a criminal referral.
Misconduct We Document
Cargo and inventory theft
Product leaving the dock in the wrong truck, short-shipped pallets, phantom returns, and collusion between a warehouse employee and an outside buyer. Surveillance, records analysis, and coordination with your accountant and, when you choose, Doral Police or Miami-Dade Police cargo theft units.
Vendor kickbacks and procurement fraud
A purchasing manager steering business to a carrier, broker, or supplier in exchange for cash or favors. We trace the relationship through public records and document the meetings.
FMLA and leave abuse
Surveillance of employees on FMLA, disability, or workers’ comp leave who are working another job or doing things their restrictions rule out. In Doral, that usually means another warehouse, a delivery gig, or driving a truck for cash.
Time and attendance fraud
Buddy punching on the dock, phantom overtime, drivers padding hours, and remote employees who are not where they say they are.
Moonlighting and competing businesses
Employees diverting customers, running a side company with your rate sheet and your client list, or working for a competing forwarder while on your payroll.
Substance abuse on the job
Documented use or impairment during work hours, particularly for forklift operators, drivers, and anyone in a DOT-regulated role.
Harassment and hostile-environment complaints
Independent witness interviews and fact-finding so the company’s response is defensible under Florida and federal law.
Post-termination violations
A former employee breaching a non-compete or non-solicitation agreement, or taking customers to a new employer down the street.
Warehouse Crews Notice Everything
A 40-person distribution operation knows every truck, every car, and every face that belongs on its block. A ten-person freight office is even smaller. If word gets out that ownership hired an investigator, the subject cleans up, coworkers close ranks, and the company has a morale problem stacked on the original one.
We work from outside the business wherever possible. Off-premises surveillance of the employee’s activity, records work, and interviews structured so the subject is not identified. When on-site work is required, we plan it with you and only the people who need to know.
The Investigation File
- Timestamped video and photographs of the documented conduct
- A written report with a dated timeline and sourced findings
- Witness statements from coworkers, drivers, vendors, or customers where applicable
- Chain-of-custody records for all evidence
- Background on the subject, including undisclosed employment or business interests
- Investigator testimony for unemployment hearings, civil suits, insurance claims, or criminal prosecution
Questions From Employers
Is it legal to have an employee followed?
Yes, in public places, without trespass, harassment, or audio recording. Off-duty surveillance of an employee on leave or suspected of moonlighting is lawful and routine.
Can you monitor an employee's personal phone or social media?
We capture what is public. We do not access private accounts, personal devices, or messages, and we advise employers against it. Public posts, with dates and URLs, are often enough.
We think product is leaving through a specific shift. Where do you start?
Records first, to narrow the window and the people, then surveillance of the dock and the destination. We coordinate with your insurance carrier if a claim is likely and with law enforcement if you decide to prosecute.
Will this hold up if the employee sues after termination?
That is the point of doing it this way. Documented, lawfully gathered evidence with a clean chain of custody is what defense counsel needs to answer a wrongful termination or retaliation claim.
How quickly can you start?
Within days. Our office is on Ponce de Leon Boulevard in Coral Gables, twenty minutes from Doral on the Dolphin.
Get the Facts Before You Make the Call
Tell us what you suspect. We will tell you what can be documented, how long it takes, and what it costs.
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