They limit employee costs by reducing turnover, absenteeism and lateness.

However, well-managed, it is a useful management tool for reducing absenteeism.

Such policies would improve recruitment, reduce absenteeism, diminish turnover, increase productivity and enhance company image.

Officials also said that they were paying closer attention to sick leave and workers compensation cases, to reduce absenteeism.

Moreover, they said, paid leave would benefit the economy by reducing absenteeism and the need for new parents to go on welfare.

In 2007, it launched a program to reduce absenteeism among its 1,200 Native American students.

The medical community will tell you that access to mental health care often reduces medical claims for physical illness and helps reduce absenteeism.

It wants to reduce absenteeism, saying the daily absenteeism rate for union members is 6 percent.

The new services may reduce absenteeism as well.

Advocates of paid parental leave say it "would benefit the economy by reducing absenteeism and the need for new parents to go on welfare."