Every organization with employees needs an absence policy. The absence policy informs employees about how to take time off work.
An absence policy should include:
- How to get approval for a planned absence (taking a vacation, or a day off to do errands)
- How to report an unplanned absence (woke up sick or had an injury the previous evening after work)
- Whether paid absence is available, whether it accrues or how it accrues, and how it is paid
- Whether unpaid absence is available
- What happens to accrued but unused absences when an employee leaves the organization