Absence Management
Absence management is defined as the way employers plan, track, and manage employee leaves. It requires employers to stay up to date with all staff requirements, legal and regulatory compliance, budget concerns, and employee satisfaction. If keeping up with these requirements is a challenge, you can put our 60 years of experience helping businesses manage leave and disability to work for you.
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The Guardian Absence Management Scorecard can help you compare your efforts against similar companies and identify opportunities to strengthen your absence management program.
The changing work environment — along with a competitive labor market and increasing workforce mental health concerns — has been top of mind for employers when it comes to benefits and absence management strategy.
Learn absence management fundamentals, and get the latest insights and best practices from our Absence Management Academy webinars.
The Guardian Absence Management Scorecard can help you compare your efforts against similar companies and identify opportunities to strengthen your absence management program.
The changing work environment — along with a competitive labor market and increasing workforce mental health concerns — has been top of mind for employers when it comes to benefits and absence management strategy.
Learn absence management fundamentals, and get the latest insights and best practices from our Absence Management Academy webinars.
Absence management basics
What is absence management?
Absence management refers to the ways that employers plan, track, and handle different types of employee leaves.
What types of leaves does absence management cover?
Absence management - and compliance - covers the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA), jury duty, company leaves, short- and long-term disability, Paid Family and Medical Leave (PFML), and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
FMLA is a federal law that provides eligible employees up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave per calendar year for the care of a family member, or their own serious health condition.
PFML laws set the standards for managing employee work absences in states where they apply. Our PFML Resource Center helps you navigate PFML laws by providing a state-by-state overview of programs and resources.
Many absences could be due to an employee’s own health issue. Centralizing disability with FMLA and other leave types can be a best practice to help ease administration, enhance the employee experience, and improve productivity.
FMLA is a federal law that provides eligible employees up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave per calendar year for the care of a family member, or their own serious health condition.
PFML laws set the standards for managing employee work absences in states where they apply. Our PFML Resource Center helps you navigate PFML laws by providing a state-by-state overview of programs and resources.
Many absences could be due to an employee’s own health issue. Centralizing disability with FMLA and other leave types can be a best practice to help ease administration, enhance the employee experience, and improve productivity.
Broadly speaking, managing leave and absence can be done in much the same way that HR and businesses leaders approach other operational challenges:
Information needs to be gathered so that management better understands absence trends in their organization.
Based on that learning and insight – and an understanding of the applicable legal and regulatory requirements – policies and processes can be defined. Managers and employees need to be educated on the newly defined practices.
Ongoing data measurement tracks the success of these efforts and informs the process for making needed adjustments.
Discover five proven strategies that can help companies better manage leave and disability issues, and lead to improved absence management outcomes.
Absence management services and solutions help employers plan, track, and handle employee leaves while complying with federal and state leave laws. System capabilities can include administration, employee communications, claims management, return-to-work support, and reporting.
Broadly speaking, managing leave and absence can be done in much the same way that HR and businesses leaders approach other operational challenges:
Information needs to be gathered so that management better understands absence trends in their organization.
Based on that learning and insight – and an understanding of the applicable legal and regulatory requirements – policies and processes can be defined. Managers and employees need to be educated on the newly defined practices.
Ongoing data measurement tracks the success of these efforts and informs the process for making needed adjustments.
Discover five proven strategies that can help companies better manage leave and disability issues, and lead to improved absence management outcomes.
Absence management services and solutions help employers plan, track, and handle employee leaves while complying with federal and state leave laws. System capabilities can include administration, employee communications, claims management, return-to-work support, and reporting.
1 2022 Guardian Absence Management Activity Index & Study
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1 2022 Guardian Absence Management Activity Index & Study
Links to external sites are provided for your convenience in locating related information and services. Guardian, its subsidiaries, agents and employees expressly disclaim any responsibility for and do not maintain, control, recommend, or endorse third-party sites, organizations, products, or services and make no representation as to the completeness, suitability, or quality thereof.
Guardian’s Group Long Term and Short Term Disability Insurance is underwritten and issued by The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America, New York, NY. Products are not available in all states.
Guardian Absence SolutionsSM is a service mark of The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America.
This advertising content is not currently intended for anyone in the state of New Mexico.