I've read your report, and I'm not sure I agree with you. You think you can get attendance improved by requiring salaried employees to take their all of their sick days?
That's right. I know it must sound crazy to you, but we believe there will be fewer absences this way.
We give them 10 or 15 sick days per year. Surely requiring people to take them couldn't possibly help. It sounds like a counter - productive policy change to me.
Right now, we have incentives encouraging employees to come to work as often as possible. But employees with colds and the flu are coming to work and infecting their colleagues.
I see. So our current policies are encouraging sick people to come to work, resulting in more sick employees.
That's right. If sick days were mandatory, sick people would stay home. We wouldn't have these company-wide epidemics.