Designing an Attendance Policy: Can You Share What Works at Your Company?

Hi! I have to design an attendance policy for my company. Can somebody share the comprehensive attendance policy of their company? Any help in this regard would be appreciated.

Regards,
ftams

Hi,

The attendance policy would be covered under the Standing Order/Service Rules. The general principles that this policy has to cover are as follows:

- Marking of attendance category
- Recording of attendance
- Procedure to record attendance at the allotted spot
- Accountability of attendance to determine payroll computation
- Time-offs procedure
- Late coming intimation - follow through
- Misrepresentation on the recording system
- Falsification of documents
- Disciplinary action for lapses

Thank you,

HRG-Rajaram

Shyamali,

Generally, it is an in-house policy.

1. Maintenance of manual register as per the applicable acts to the organization (Factory Act, Shop & Establishment Act).
2. Defining the time for card acceptance in the morning.
3. Defining the time for a half-day.
4. Procedure to be set in case of not bringing the card.
5. In the case of leaving early but after half a day, i.e., leaving 2 hours earlier than the closing of business hours.
6. Timely intimation to the Labor Department on a weekly basis regarding the arrival and departure of employees.
7. A policy needs to be established in case of not swapping the card.
8. Non-compliance with the above policy.

Regards,
Deepa