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Dear Sonal
Firstly we need to know that the employees are going on PLANNED LEAVE or UNPLANNED LEAVE. If they are going on unplanned leave then it is clear that it was disturbing the work flow. Make an policy which clearly states that if any employee want to go on a leave he should plan it and let the management know about it well in advance so that you guys can plan the work to completed by then.
We are following the same thing in our company and its been very beneficiary
Thanks
Dheeraj pariekh

From India, Pune
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Dear Sonal,
Please make a leave policy which says that "all vacations and sick leaves needs will be accrued in an monthly basis", which means that if you decided to give your employees 12 days of Vacation Leave in a year, every month that they work, they would accrue 1 day of VL. Same rule will apply for SLs. Also mention as a part of the leave policy that all vacation leaves needs to be applied atleast 3 weeks in advance and needs to be pre-approved by their respective manager.
If the number of days that an employee is absent from office exceeds that number of leaves (VL + SL) available to him in a particular month, the rest of the days would be treated as "Unpaid leave of absence". Once you start docking their pay for unscheduled leaves, you will see that the number of unscheduled leave of absence will reduce significantly.
Good Luck
Arnabi Ghosh

From India, Calcutta
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