Excused Absence - Get Excused With a Fake Absence Note
Are you a manager with an office floor that looks more like a ghost town? Finding more and more often that your employees are absent from their desks? You aren't alone. Absenteeism is on the rise in the workplace, and a new trend may just mean that your employees have ironclad excuses.
Calling in sick is nothing new in the office, especially with the weekend drawing near. But now, you'll have a much harder time disciplining your absent workers, thanks to a new product. Companies online have begun to sell "excused absence" notes – fake doctor's stationary, to be filled in by your employees to cover their tracks. While they were out earning a hangover, their excused absence assures you that they were serving jury duty. While they were really trying to catch pop flies at the home game, they will dutifully bring you an excused absence note explaining that they had an appointment for a physical. And instead of getting up early for the staff meeting, they'll saunter in Monday morning, bright eyed and busy-tailed, with an excused absence that they had to attend a last-minute wake.
Managers beware! These excused absence notes are of such high-quality, it's virtually impossible to tell the difference from the genuine article. With the better providers online, it's actually possible to fill in the doctor's information from scratch to make sure the address is local.
The problem is, it's often difficult to determine a real excused absence and a fake one. Oftentimes, diligent employees will come to work sick because they feel it's their duty to do so, infecting their co-workers in the process and bringing down overall productivity. Given a choice between one crafty employees excused absence and a decimated workforce, a manager is left with a catch-22.
Good news for employers, however: overall, excused absences are going down, even with the new tools available for tricky workers. From a national high of 2.7% absenteeism in 1999, overall absenteeism dropped to only 2.3% in 2007. Perhaps more employees calling in sick when they aren't is removing the stigma from workers that truly are ill, and keeping overall attendance up? Only time will tell.
So managers, be aware of the wool your employees are trying to pull over your eyes. Not all excused absences are genuine, but also be careful not to cause increased absenteeism in the workplace by cracking the whip too hard. As long as you know you can't be fooled, you'll be ahead of the curve. And maybe you'll know where to find an excused absence when YOUR boss comes calling!
Basis for Excused Absence
Do you know what makes your absence from work excused? As an employer, do you know the consideration you have to give your employees with regard to their attendance? Actually, it is included in the law of different States in the United States and other countries all over the world; every employee is entitled to have what is considered an excused absence.
However, for an individual worker to have an excused absence, there are some requirements and acceptable reasons for applying the rule of every company with regard to excused absence. Among the most excused absence-related reasons are hospitalization or health reasons that will prevent an individual from going to work. In case health reason is the cause of the absence, the employee must be able to provide legal documents from a licensed health officer or practitioner regarding any findings on the health condition of the individual.
This is why there have been problems on the falsification of some medical documents for many. The excused absence days of an employee will allow them to get paid even if they did not report to work, especially if the status of the employee is regular worker already in a company. On the other hand, some individuals who have not been able to get the regularization from the work, the excused absence that any medical certificate will provide them will allow their continuous work with the office even if the limited absent days have been reached already.
While this may obviously be a problem for employers, it can also be beneficial for employees especially for those who have a legitimate reason for having an excused absence claim. This is because not all employers can understand their employees’ plight. There are employers who simply do not want to hear excuses or listen to their employees’ concerns. Moreover, there are also employers who just want to “get back” at their employees and they can do this by not consenting to their employees’ excused absence claims. When this happens, it is but logical that an employee beat the rules and just resort to getting certificates that could justify their claims even if the situation didn’t happen in the first place.
It will be better to do well in your job if you love to have the financial rewards of working; however, you must also be sure that you do the application for the excused absence benefit from your company rightfully. On the other hand, if you are caught in a bind and you do not have any other means to get around your employers’ highly strict rules and regulations, it is but logical and understandable that you resort to various means just for you to justify your excuse absence claims.