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MEMORANDUM
To All Stuff
We’re all late from time to time, it is part of life. from being delayed in traffic, broken down
cars and even sleeping through an alarm, we’ve all been there!
As an employer, we admit staff members to be late every now and then. However, managers
and employers cannot accept a situation where an employee is continually late for work,
simply because this acceptance will only could the situation and make it worse.
Therefore, an employee that is continually late is effectively stealing time from the company.
A late employee may start to fall behind on their work and either rush things, or leave them
uncompleted.
There are no hard and fast rules for dealing with someone who is always late. Every manager
is different, as is employee and their personal situation. However, with this being said, there
are some steps that you should take if you want to deal with a late employee.
A late policy in its right might be considered excessive, but a section on lateness could be
incorporated into existing policies and procedures covering Absence Management or Time
and Attendance, for example. The policy should include:
Make sure any new policies or updates to our procedure are communicated to all employees
and implemented fairly throughout the entire company.
2 Maintain records
Keep track of employee lateness and if you see one or two staff members are late much more
than the rest of the working team, consider that you may have to deal with them. Keeping
records means you will be able to use them as evidence when you speak to the employee in
question, showing them facts rather than voicing your opinion about their tardiness.
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Do not wait until you are angry and annoyed, or the rest of the team are feeling annoyed.
Speak to the late employee before you get to this stage to help avoid it getting to that point.
Schedule a meeting with the employee.
While important for you to broach the topic with an employee that is always late, be
conscious of their privacy. take them to one side to discuss their lateness rather than
confronting them and voicing your concerns in the main office which may cause
embarrassment.
5. REWARD IMPROVEMENTS
When meeting with the late employee try to calm, do not make it personal and avoid getting
angry. Speak through your concerns over their lateness, present them with evidence and refer
back to your company’s policy on employee lateness.
Explain that you want to understand what is causing their lateness and find out if there’s
something you could help with.