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HR update: Ensuring your staff achieve a good attendance record

Does your nursery have an absence problem? How much is absence costing your business? It is important to monitor just what is going on, says Jacqui Mann, managing director of HR4Nurseries

It can cause so much disruption to the nursery when one member of staff phones in sick. It is therefore important to ensure that it is well managed and absence levels kept under control. If you have employees who are regularly off sick it can really affect the morale of those who are left to cover their workload, and staff can see managers failing to deal with it as a weakness in their leadership.

Steps to take

Your absence policy should set out what the nursery expects from employees, explaining what they must do if they are sick, who they must contact and by what time. I would also recommend including this procedure in the employment contract discussed at induction.

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