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Set when sickness needs a closer look
Set the rules that flag someone's sickness for a review, by days, times off or a Bradford score.
What you'll need: Your absence policy's trigger points.
A rule tells HR when someone's sickness reaches a level your policy asks you to look at, such as four times off in a year.
More detail
KivoHR flags it. It never acts on its own.
Add a rule
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Step 1: Go to Settings, Sickness and absence rules, and press Add a rule.
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Step 2: Choose What should we count?: days off sick, times off sick, or a Bradford score.
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Step 3: Set At what level? and Over what time?
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Step 4: Choose What happens then?, then press Add the rule.
Stuck?
What is a Bradford score?
Times off, squared, times the days off. It weighs many short spells more than one long one.
Can people take a sick day as holiday?
Under Holiday instead of sick pay, choose whether they can choose it themselves in the app (the default), or only ask HR to record it. Either way it's the worker's choice, never yours: see Be paid holiday for a sick day instead. A day taken as holiday still counts as sickness for these rules.
It says the rule is archived
An archived rule can't change. Add a new one.
Someone was flagged for a disability-related absence
A rule only flags it. Decide fairly, and think about reasonable adjustments. Acas: managing absence
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