Family and Medical Leave
» Family and Medical Leave, Volume 4, Issue 2, 2004
4. Do you have a policy regarding employees who request short periods of time off for personal matters such as doctor’s appointments or parent-teacher conferences, or is it on a case-by-case basis?
| Response | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Policy | 16 | ||
| 2 | Case-by-case | 81 | ||
| 3 | Never thought about it | 3 | ||
| 4 | DK/Refuse | 1 | ||
| Total (%) | 101 | |||
| N | 753 | |||
Notes: Sixteen (16) percent of small employers have policies governing requests for short periods of time off for important personal business (Q#4).

