Perfect Attendance Question

england · July 2003

We give two hours of Well Time (comp)to employees who have perfect attendance in a month. If they have perfect attendance for the year, it would of course add up to three extra days off for them in a year.

Question: Would this be considered a perfect attendance award that would be subject to the FMLA qualifing event exception? In other words, would we have to give the two hours to someone who was off on FMLA, STD or WC?

Any help?

Don D · July 2003

FMLA, yes. Comp and your company STD program, no. Federal law precludes our counting against an employee's attendance any time missed for FMLA when determining rewards for attendance. In other words, if not for the FMLA the employee would have had perfect attendance, he still has it with FMLA. Since all comp laws are state laws, it depends on what your particular state law says about this but I doubt it mentions it. And, depending on how your STD policy is worded is the deciding factor in whether or not that would count against the ee for attendance. I know, I know....it's not a good morale booster for the rest of the staff to see somebody get a perfect attendance reward when they missed SIXTY DAYS during the year on FMLA.

gillian2 · July 2003

That's probably the reason why now there are less Perfect Attendance Programs in operation than before.

england · July 2003

Thank you for your help!

AnneLa · July 2003

That's exactly the reason why we stopped our perfect attendance awards program.........

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