Attendance Management
If you’re frustrated by your employees’ absenteeism, you’re not alone. All employers are challenged by employee attendance problems. You count on your employees to show up at work, on time. It’s obvious - if you didn’t need them there, you wouldn’t have hired them in the first place. Sadly, not all employees share your view of their attendance. In unionized workplaces, attendance management takes on an additional dimension.
The costs of absenteeism are very high. You have to find another person to do the work of the absent employee, possibly at an overtime rate. You may incur costs to train someone to take over the job. Having other employees fill in for absent co-workers adds to their stress and sometimes breeds resentment.
Overall, absenteeism makes your organization less efficient. Having an effective attendance management program will increase your bottom line.
Absenteeism issues have become increasingly complex in recent years. Employers must balance their requirement to have employees at work and their employees’ legitimate reasons to be away. The unauthorized failure to attend work in a regular and reliable fashion breaches your employee’s obligation to you, but do you know the appropriate employer response? It’s seldom straight-forward.
Access HR Solutions understands the practical side of attendance management. We can assist you to design, implement and administer absenteeism control programs to reduce:
- non-culpable absenteeism – absences due to an illness, injury, disability, Emergency Leave, etc.; and
- culpable absenteeism – absences without a legitimate cause.
An effectively managed workforce requires an effective attendance program. Early intervention with employees who are absent from work has proven rewards. We will assist you to:
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Determine attendance objectives and communicate them to your staff.
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Create an environment where attendance is valued as part of the team ethos.
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Implement strategies to elicit useful medical information.
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Assess medical information in the context of your workplace.
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Design and implement Return to Work programs that encourage employee participation.
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