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Government backs Big Brother approach to 'sickies'

Posted by TrainingZone in Strategy on Mon, 12/05/2008 - 09:05

Lie detectors could soon be used to deter workers from pulling sickies, after trials of the technology were backed by the government last week.

The controversial Voice Risk Analysis (VRA) system, which can tell when a person is lying on the phone about being too ill to work, has already been trialed successfully in a number of pilot projects within the benefits system.

Anti-fraud minister James Plaskitt last week announced that using VRA to detect false benefit claims in local authorities had saved in excess of £330,000.

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