Employee not turned in today?
Unauthorised absence
It is not uncommon for employees to simply fail to report for work without providing any reason for their absence.
Resignation
Do not simply assume that they have resigned from their employment by not turning in.
Investigation
You need to try to discover what has happened and whether or not the employee plans to return to work. The starting point is to telephone the employee. Try a few times and leave messages, if possible. Keep a detailed record of your attempts at contact. If this does not work, write to the employee asking them to make contact as a matter of urgency and giving them a reasonable deadline by which to do so.
If the employee simply does not reply to your letter and continues to fail to make contact with you.
Make all reasonable attempts to establish further contact with the employee, including leaving phone messages with home numbers and mobile numbers and contacting the employee’s listed next of kin. Again, keep detailed records of your attempts at contact. Also, ask the employee’s colleagues, if they have heard anything or know what’s going on.
Discipline Action
If this does not bring about a response from the employee, you may want to take steps to terminate the employee’s employment for an ongoing failure to attend work. In this situation, ensure that you comply with a fair dismissal procedure.
Desired Outcome
We often find that our Clients whom have followed our advice, including using our specifically drafted letters bring about the outcome that they desire. For example, an employee that simply does not attend work, which is dealt with inline with the above advice will often resign in preference to being dismissed.
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r more information, regarding either this topic or our retained services, which includes an unlimited use advice line, letter drafting, very successful tribunal defence scheme and visits to your site, contact EBS. Whether or not you are an existing EBS client, rapid advice is available to you simply by picking up the telephone.