Leave & How to Manage It!

Eligibility, criteria, & usage of leave is governed by applicable bargaining agreements and personnel plans. Supervisors should refer to the applicable agreement or plan for managing an employee's leave accumulation and usage.

Supervisor's Responsibilities

• Communicating attendance and leave expectations
• Maintaining employee attendance records
• Ensuring accurate time records
• Consistent review and approval of Request for Temporary Absence: Keeping in mind, workload, staffing needs, determining applicable leave, leave eligibility and/or available balance, and requests from other employees
• Providing timely response to employee

Monitoring Sick Leave

• Keep attendance records
• Consider review when exceed 6 separate incidents in a fixed 12-month period

Recognizing Sick Leave Abuse

• Frequency and reason for sick leave use
• Patterns of sick leave absence
• Employees unused sick leave balance
• Impact of absence on the work load and employees
• Absences when vacation originally denied

 

More Information on Leave

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