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Click to show the answer What factors in the workplace are likely to discourage regular attendance at work?

Click to show the answer How can implementing an attendance management procedure assist employers?

Click to show the answer What are the advantages and disadvantages of attendance incentives?

Click to show the answer How should employees be required to notify any unexpected absences?

Click to show the answer How can an employer reduce the likelihood of employees taking time off work as a result of personal or family circumstances?

Click to show the answer When should an employer instigate a formal review of a particular employee's level of attendance?

Click to show the answer When conducting a formal review of an employee's attendance, should any absences be discounted?

Click to show the answer What is the 'lost-time rate' of measuring absence?

Click to show the answer How can sick pay be used as a tool for managing attendance?

Click to show the answer What, if any, action should a manager take where he or she suspects, but has no proof, that an employee's absence was not genuinely for the reason given?

Click to show the answer What can an employer do when an employee who has been invited to come to an attendance review meeting goes off sick?

Click to show the answer Is it acceptable to issue a formal warning to an employee whose level of attendance is unsatisfactory, even where there are genuine reasons for the various absences?

Click to show the answer Why is it good practice to conduct return-to-work interviews every time an employee has had a day or two off work?

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