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(employee on family leave) Stay out longer than he or she originally told you.
Do you have a policy regarding employees who request short periods of time off for personal matters such as doctor’s appointments or parent-teacher conferences, or is it on a case-by-case basis?
Is the policy written and available to employees upon request?
Which BEST describes the way you typically handle such requests for short periods of leave on personal matters? Do you typically:?
Over the last three years have you had serious problems, occasional problems or no problems with one or more employees abusing short periods of time off for personal matters?
Is the employee typically paid while out for these short periods, not paid, or takes vacation or sick leave?
Do you keep any type of records on the time employees spend out for doctor’s appointments, parent-teacher conferences, and similar short periods of absence?
Think of the last time an employee requested a short period of time off for a personal matter. Did you grant it?
Was it an emergency situation?
Did the employee ask at least 72 hours before the time was needed?
Volume 4, Issue 2, 2004 ISSN - 1534-8326
William J. Dennis, Jr. NFIB Research Foundation