ATTENDANCE
POLICY SCOPE
Employee absences, tardiness, and leaving a scheduled work shift early has a drastic
impact on our ability to provide the services we are contracted to do, causes
inefficient operations of the company, and negatively impacts other team members.
POLICY AND POLICY DEFINITIONS
Punctual and regular attendance is an essential responsibility of each employee.
Employees are expected to report to work as scheduled, on time, and prepared to
work. Employees are also expected to remain at work for their entire work shift.
Late arrival, early departure, and/ or other absences from scheduled hours are
disruptive and must be avoided.
This policy does not apply to absences covered by the Federal and State Family and
Medical Leave Act (FMLA, CFMLA), Connecticut Paid Sick Leave Law, leave
provided as a reasonable accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act
(ADA) or any other approved leave.
OCCURENCE
Each violation to our attendance policy is considered one (1) occurrence for the
purpose of discipline under this policy.
ABSENCE
Absence is defined as an employee not reporting for work when scheduled.
The two types of absences are:
1.Excused Absence – when an employee requests and is approved for paid time
off (PTO) in advance of the absence.
The request and PTO usage must follow our PTO policy and is considered excused
when all the following conditions are met:
a.A time off request is submitted through the defined company process and
system (Paycom).
b.The time-off request is approved in advance.
c.The employee has sufficient accrued paid time off (PTO) to cover the
absence.
In addition, an absence covered by the Federal and/or State Family and Medical
Leave Act (FMLA, CFMLA), Connecticut Paid Sick Leave Law, or other approved
leave provided as a reasonable accommodation under the Americans with
Disabilities Act (ADA) or any other approved leave, is considered an excused
absence.