Hi!
Work attendance is a very critical aspect of corporate life. It can have a serious impact on the productivity and profitability of business organizations if mismanaged.Absenteeism, tardiness, and undertime are very common phenomena in corporate environments. Managing them successfully requires good management and labor relations skills.
During my employment years, I have successfully controlled rampant attendance abuse involving thousands of plant and office employees. Try the following steps:
1. Make your policy clear on the matter.
1.1 Let employees know that they were hired to work within the official working hours stipulated by the company. Hence, if they have problems reporting for work on the given schedule, talk to them and tell them that if they can't follow the company's working hours, they should resign or run the risk of being dismissed.
1.2 Never hire people who has a bad history in work attendance. Make sure that your company only hire people who are willing to work in your company's location & working hours (esp if shifting). Include these conditions in their Employment Contract.
1.3 Penalize excessive unauthorized absences, tardiness, and undertime. Be prepared to terminate abusive and repeat offenders after implementing a step ladder discipline system and complying with the due process procedure mandated by your Labor Law.
2. Implement the maxim "NO WORK NO PAY" strictly.
2.1 Make sure that employees are required to register their "time in" and "time out" at all times.
2.2 Make sure also that your attendance monitoring system can track and record the exact work hours of your employees every day.
2.3 Unauthorized absences, tardiness, undertime are all unworked hours, and therefore, should NEVER be paid.
2.4 During payroll processing, make sure that all unworked hours are deducted from the concerned employee's pay.
Best wishes.
Ed Llarena, Jr.
Managing Partner
Emilla Consulting
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