Top Concerns Around Absence Management and Why Employers Fail to Measure and Mitigate Absenteeism

As we approach the 20th Anniversary of the passage of the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (FMLA), employers and employees alike continue to grapple with the issue of unplanned and extended employee absence. Prior to 1993, an employee’s unplanned absence to seek medical care or provide care for a child or parent could result in immediate dismissal. Moreover, most aspects of an employer leave policy were discretionary.

In today’s labor environment, unplanned absences now trigger a workflow of mandatory administrative activities:

1.       Determination of eligibility for protected leave;
2.       Calculation of leave benefits;
3.       Mandatory communications between human resources and the employee;
4.       Validation of the leave event; and
5.       Confidential documentation of the entire process.

FMLA balances the employer’s right to deploy a productive workforce and terminate poor performers with the right of individual employees to take unplanned time off for serious medical and family health issues without loss of job security. It also launched the emerging field of Total Absence Management (TAM) – the HR administrative framework for measuring and mitigating the effects of employee absence, coordinating leave administration with disability and other benefits programs.

So how effectively are employers like yourself executing TAM today? In May, 2012, the ADP Research Institute (sm), a specialized group within ADP, commissioned a blind survey of HR and Benefits decision makers from midsized (50-999 employees) and large (1,000 + employees) employers to better understand their business priorities and TAM practices. Join us for the HR.com webcast on October 3, 2012 for a revealing look at the survey data regarding aspects of TAM including:

•       The effect of employee absenteeism;
•       Business impacts associated with absenteeism;
•       Processes and tools used by employers to administer Leave Administration; and
•       Tactics to measure and mitigate the impacts of employee absence.

For attending the event, you will receive a complimentary whitepaper with the comprehensive survey findings titled, “Total Absence Management: Two Decades After the Passage of FMLA.”

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