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Absence management policy
What’s an absence management policy and when should you use it?
You should have one of these policies in place for your employees.
When employees are absent from work due to sickness, this policy covers how they must report their sickness absence.
It also sets out what pay they may be entitled to, during any sickness absence.
While the majority of this policy covers sickness absence, you’ll also find here details relating to absences from work for other reasons, such as jury service and family-related absences.
The policy applies to all employees and workers.
It does not apply to self-employed contractors.
We recommend that you do not give this policy contractual status in any employment contract that you put in place, but that you do reference it in that contract, make clear that the employee is expected to comply with the policy and that you have the right to update or revise it, in your discretion and when you want to.
We have drafted this template as a Booklet due to the nature of the topic.
You can retain it as a separate booklet for your employees or incorporate it within your employee handbook.
This template includes all the statutory requirements, as well as optional elements for you to consider.
What else might you need?
Worker absences from work may signal problems or issues that you should be aware of, such as the behaviour of other employees, or maybe a health and safety risk, and/or you may want to look at these absences alongside performance management procedures and remedies available to you.
Always handle absences carefully and take expert advice where you’re not sure how to address any particular circumstances.
You should take a look at all the employment policies in our suite of template documents and also the terms of any employment-related contracts that you already have or are about to put into place.
It’s important to ensure consistency between these documents and that your own versions are fully up-to-date.
Often, while employment policies will cover the procedures and time-frames for how certain employer-employee interactions should be handled, the contract itself will cover the remedies applicable to the outcomes of these procedures.
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