Staff Handbook – Absence From Work Unauthorised absences You are required to be available for work during your normal working hours. You must make every effort to attend work. The following rules apply in respect of unauthorised absence; If, for whatever reason, you are unable to get to work or are delayed, you must inform your Manager by telephone as soon as possible and in no case later than 30 minutes from the start of your day. You will be expected to explain your absence or delay to your Manager when you arrive for work. Top Job Recruitment reserves the right to deduct an appropriate amount from your salary or wages if it finds your explanation unsatisfactory. A repeated or prolonged absence of any kind may also result in disciplinary action against you
If you are arranging a medical appointment, please do your best to arrange it outside working hours. If you have to take leave to attend a medical appointment, it is expected that you will make up this time. If you are out of the office for 3 hours or more this must be taken as holiday or unpaid leave. If it is likely to involve taking most of the day off, please try to use a day’s holiday (referring to our Holiday Policy)
If you know you will be absent
If you are sick or injured
You should tell your Manager as soon as possible if you know you need time off work — for a medical appointment, for example — and get their permission. We will not normally pay you unless it is agreed to make the time up (see above). You should tell your Manager by telephone. Unless there is a good reason, text or email notifications are not acceptable.
If you are sick or have suffered an injury, you should let your Manager know as soon as possible that you will be absent, ideally at least 30 minutes before your scheduled start or by 8.30am.
Sickness and injury absence from work Rules for notifying Top Job Recruitment about sickness and injury and to qualify you for Company sick pay are as follows;
You must speak to your Manager yourself unless you are medically unfit to do so, in which case you can ask somebody else to make contact for you. You should contact your Manager on each subsequent day you are off work, unless you have a doctor’s certificate, Fit for Work return-to-work plan, or have agreed to a different process. Always contact your Manager ideally by telephone, if possible. That is because they might want to ask you questions about your absence and how long you are expecting to be off for. Your Manager may also contact you to ask for updates or to ask work questions where he cannot get the information any other way (although he will not contact you for work issues, if you have said you do not want to be contacted, unless it is particularly important).
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