Volcanic Disruption

Carolil

Two of my staff are stuck overseas, where they were on vacation, held up by the ash drifts that have shut down all the major airports. They are probably going to eat up all their vacation and maybe some personal time if I let them, on the delay.

Does anyone out there have a policy, or had to implement something that covers the impact of such natural disasters on a) work travel or b) vacation travel? On the one hand, they are pretty rare to impact any one company, but on the other hand we've had a few now over the last 10 years -- Haiti, New Orleans, China, Chile, etc., so I'm wondering if anyone out there has been impacted as a company.

Sharon McKnight SPHR

You might consider allowing them a choice between using an unpaid leave to cover the extra days rather than using up vacation time, etc. I think that would send message to all employees that the company can be flexible when situations are truly beyond employees control.

Sharon