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Nicola Stout, MBA, FCIPD, Dip HR
Everyone is ill or unable to come to work sometimes, so every employer will have to manage an unauthorised absence leave at some point, no matter how fabulous you are to work for!
Genuine illness, domestic emergency or perhaps travel issues often reasons given for an absence but to prevent a problem you need to put a few things in place.
Within your Absence Policy you need a few key pieces of information, namely
Also, if the company refers to a medical professional or occupational health at a certain point during sick leave, this needs to be included also.
Have you heard of the Bradford Score? It’s a great indicator, very widely used to identify when there is a problem brewing.
S² x D = Bradford Score
S = total number of instances of absence for the employee
D = total number of days the employee was absent
To explain a little further ….. if an employee is off once in a 52-week period for 10 days – (1×1) x 10= 10 however if an employee is off 10 individual days over the same period (10×10) x10= 1000
The higher the Bradford score, the more attention needs to be paid to the return to work interviews to ascertain the problem (if indeed there is one). Its easy to see by just looking at the number of sick days the fact that it’s always the same day of the week or similar might be overlooked.
Everyone is ill or unable to come to work sometimes, so every employer will have to manage an unauthorised absence leave at some point, no matter how fabulous you are to work for!
Genuine illness, domestic emergency or perhaps travel issues often reasons given for an absence but to prevent a problem you need to put a few things in place.
