NG Healthcare Staff Handbook

Your Attendance

Dependency Leave

There may be occasions when you need time off at short notice to deal with an emergency in your personal life. Where possible, we will try to accommodate request for time off to look after sick children, relatives or home emergencies. Where possible, you should try to make arrangements to prevent such a need recurring, for example by making arrangements for emergency childcare. If you continue to require time off for dependency reasons your manager will discuss the situation with you. Any agreed dependency leave is taken as unpaid leave.

Other Reasons for Absence

Compassionate Leave In certain circumstances we may grant you time off as compassionate leave to deal with the death or serious illness of a close relative. If you think that you may need such leave, you should discuss this with your line manager as soon as you are aware you may need it. Any leave granted will normally be on an unpaid basis.

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