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By Susan M. Heathfield, About.com Guide to Human Resources since 2000

Attendance Policy and Absenteeism Policy Samples and Examples

Wednesday December 29, 2004
Free policy and procedure samples are big with visitors at this site. With this in mind, I am adding sections on the most needed and requested policies. Since I am in the process of developing a new attendance or absenteeism policy for my client, I've done lots of research on a variety of attendance policies this holiday. I'm not happy with most approaches. I prefer to treat people like adults and trust them. Unfortunately, this doesn't always work well in a manufacturing setting in which people are dependant on the work of others. Take a look at my new Attendance Policy and Absenteeism Policy Samples and Examples. My Policies, Handbooks: Samples and Examples is a very popular page, too.
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June 10, 2009 at 8:21 pm
(1) Lee says:

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 ????

June 11, 2009 at 11:23 am
(2) Susan Heathfield says:

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.

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