A little leave is a good thing
Employee leave requests can present challenges for employers - they need to find other workers who can fill in during that time and perform the same level or work. However, approving these requests can be a smarter move in the long run, according to a recent study that showed denying leave might lead to greater employee attendance issues.
The Integrated Benefits Institute recently released the report, called "Early Warnings: Using Family Medical and Leave Act (FMLA) to Understand and Manage Disability Absence." It explained that in many cases, FMLA requests indicated employees are more likely to use short-term disability in the 12 months following the request and it seems that there are very few instances in which the policy was misused.
FMLA is intended to allow employees to tend their own healthcare issues as well as those of their family members without fear of losing this jobs.
There is a prevailing perception that employees can potentially abuse FMLA policies to take long weekends, but the report revealed that there was no evidence to support this idea. Rather, workers were just as likely to take time off in the middle of the week as on a Monday or Friday.
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