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Incentives for attendance
I have found a good way to boost attendance with out having a mass exodus is to have a positive and negative result for good and poor attendance respectively. I will use what we do here as an example. Keep in mind that we employ mostly college students so we are pretty lenient with the attendance policy. You may need to adjust the numbers if you decide to use this.
1. Attendance Bonus -- Any employee who does not miss a day of work in a pay period will receive a $30 bonus. (This comes out to almost a 1 dollar an hour raise.)
2. Poor attendance -- All employees must work atleast 70% of available hours (28hrs in a 40 hr pay period). If they fall below that they are written up. If they fall below it a second time they are terminated.
Now we do deal exclusively with part time college students, so we can not be too demanding but you get the jist of it. It has done wonders (absenteeism rate was about 45-50%, now it stays below 30%). Soon we are making the minimum attendance percentage 75%. You can alway adjsut it.)
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