Absence Management
Absence management is 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.
Know your absence management score
The Guardian Absence Management Scorecard can help you compare your efforts against similar companies and identify opportunities to strengthen your absence management program.
Learn how absence management is evolving
The changing work environment, a competitive labor market, and increasing workforce mental health concerns, are influencing benefits and absence management strategy.
Attend our Absence Management Academy series
Learn absence management fundamentals and get the latest insights and best practices from our Absence Management Academy webinars.
Read the Absence Management Blog
Get the latest regulatory news and information impacting employee leave, including federal and state legislative updates.
The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) are federal laws that help protect employees. We can help ensure you're staying compliant with these, while implementing best leave management practices.
Learn more about FMLA, ADA, and PWFA
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. Plus, with our best-in-case wellness offerings, often built right in to disability insurance, we can help some employees prevent a leave in the first place.
Greater integration of an employer's leave program correlates to higher scores on Guardian's Absence Management Activity Index and more positive outcomes.¹
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.
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1 2023 Guardian Absence Management Activity Index & Study
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