Unauthorised Secondary Employment

Not every secondary job receives the employer’s consent, which is why it is not uncommon for employees to pursue a sideline without the knowledge of their main employer. Our qualified corporate investigators at Kurtz Detective Agency Bremen provide court-admissible proof of contract-breaching behaviour: +49 421 3679 9066.

Violation of the Non-Compete Clause

Various motives drive employees to take on a second job, but pecuniary reasons are almost always among them. Reduced full-time positions and more part-time roles force many employees to accept an additional post in order to avoid living at subsistence level. Employers generally permit their part-time staff a second job, usually on the condition that it is not with a competing company and that it does not affect the performance of the primary employment (the latter being an automatic, standard ancillary duty in employment relationships).

Full-time employees and/or staff in senior positions are, however, often prohibited from taking up further employment — partly to avoid overburdening the employee and partly to prevent the disclosure of company secrets. Nevertheless, many such employees pursue an — in this case unauthorised — secondary job. Providing court-admissible proof of this contractual breach is one of the regular tasks of our IHK-certified corporate detectives in Bremen. We will gladly advise you, where required, on the options for having our detective agency in Bremen document the offence: kontakt@kurtz-detektei-bremen.de.

Secretly Hardworking | Surveillance by Our Detectives in Bremen

If you suspect one of your employees of carrying out an unauthorised secondary occupation, your first point of contact should be our corporate detective agency in Bremen. Firstly, you will hardly be able to monitor your employee yourself due to time constraints; secondly, you are known to them, which exponentially increases the risk of discovery during surveillance; thirdly, you probably lack both training and experience in surveillance; and fourthly, any evidence you may collect as an interested party is often not admissible in court because you will naturally act subjectively.

Our experienced and expert detectives in Bremen will observe the employee in question to establish whether, in their free time, they make their labour available to other persons or companies — possibly to a competitor. Employees often exploit a (false) sick note to conduct an unauthorised secondary job; in such cases the offence of continued payment of wages fraud is added to the breach of the contractual non-compete obligation. Our skilled private detectives in Bremen prove these offences with court-admissible documentation and help you assert your rights. Receive case-specific advice by using our contact form for a non-binding enquiry or by calling us: +49 421 3679 9066.

Worth Knowing

According to the tax employees’ union, the state loses 50–60 million euros annually through tax evasion. Undeclared work is one of the offences that causes the greatest damage.