OVERVIEW

Employee’s absenteeism, late-coming and abuse of MC have caused significant challenges for most organizations. The high price of absenteeism and tardiness affects the organizations considerably with lost of productivity, morale and replacement labour costs.

To address such challenges, Employers need to develop and devise plans for managing employee discipline and attendance in their organizations.

You will benefit fully from our real-life case studies.  Our interactive workshop and case studies will ensure that you understand the causes and problems associated with employee’s misconduct and absenteeism, to effectively handle them, and able to apply them in your workplace immediately and effectively.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

At the end of the programme, participants will be able to :-

• Upon completion of this programme, participants will be able to :
• Analyze Misconduct and Discipline
• Identify the cause and control measures for Absenteeism and abuse of MC
• Identify the cause and control measures for Late-coming
• Understand the Permitted Disciplinary Actions and Procedures
• Protect your Company’s interest and integrity

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

• Human Resource Managers, Executives, Assistants
• Heads of Department / Line Managers / Factory Managers
• Executives / Supervisors / Team Leaders
• Employers and Business Owners
• Individual looking to upgrade or upskill

COURSE OUTINE

• Identifying and Handling Misconduct & Discipline

• Analyzing and Types of Misconduct
• Establishing the Level of Severity
• Due inquiry under the Employment Act 1955, Section 14
• Principles of Natural Justice
• Permitted Disciplinary Actions and Procedures
  • Counseling
  • Show Cause
  • Warning and other punishments
  • Domestic Inquiry (DI)

• Managing Tardiness and Latecomers
  • Progressive Discipline in handling late-coming
  • Is deduction for late-coming allowed?
  • Permitted disciplinary actions for managing tardiness

• Managing Employee’s Leave and Absenteeism
  • Precedent cases on employee’s leave of absence
  • Prerogative of Employer to grant leave
  • The rights of Employee to take leave

• Permissible Disciplinary measures on Absenteeism and Medical Leave
  • Employer’s rights and obligations on Employee’s Leave of Absence
  • Provision of Employment Act on employee’s leave of absence and medical leave
  • Investigating causes of Absenteeism
  • Absenteeism under the Employment Act 1955, Section 15(2)
    • Abandonment of Employment / Self-Termination
  • Absent without approved leave
  • Frequent absenteeism
  • Habitual emergency leave
  • Medical leave
    • Verifying MC / Illness
    • Malingering
    • Medical leave delinquent
    • Absence on medical ground and prolong illness