Family and Medical Leave
» Family and Medical Leave, Volume 4, Issue 2, 2004
If respondent HAS a policy regarding employees who request short periods of time off for personal matters.
5a. Which BEST describes the way you typically handle such requests for short periods of leave on personal matters? Do you typically:?
| Response | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grant it | 56 | ||
| 2 | Grant it given adequate prior notice | 35 | ||
| 3 | Grant it if the business is not too busy | 8 | ||
| 4 | Not grant it unless there is an emergency | 2 | ||
| 5 | DK/Refuse | 0 | ||
| Total (%) | 101 | |||
| N | 159 | |||
Notes: Fifty-six (56) percent of small employers with a policy governing short periods of time off for personal business report that they typically grant such leave (Q#5a).
