Attendance Policy and Absenteeism Policy Samples and Examples
Wednesday December 29, 2004
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I am a day care director and I have people who come in and call me 5 min after there shift start to say they are sick & want to go home and they are sick but I don’t understand there thinking, why not call me the night before say i am sick and don’t come in, i get well i was not sick till this morning, so if you start at 7am you could have call me at 6 and i would have replaced you, i don’t get up that early she says, so my question is what is a good time frame to say they need to call you by, hour before your shift or 1/2 ????
Hi Lee,
I would require the call in time to be whatever amount of time you need to replace them for the shift. I am assuming you need to replace them so perhaps, an hour? I would also consider developing an employee replacement list, so people are periodically “on call” to be called in but not all the time. This system can be fair.