Authorised Absence
If you need time off for urgent medical/dental appointments, personal family issues, or to care for dependents, you must make a request in advance to your manager.
- Consideration: Sympathetic consideration for unpaid authorised absence will be given, accounting for the needs of the business.
- Alternatives: You may be encouraged to take holiday or pre-organised flexi-time in these instances.
Medical Appointments
- Timing: Appointments should, as far as reasonably practicable, be made outside normal working hours or at the beginning or end of the working day to minimise disruption.
- Authorisation: Time off must be authorised by your manager in advance.
- Pay: With the exception of antenatal appointments, employees have no contractual or statutory right to be paid for medical appointments.
Compassionate/Bereavement Leave
- Deeply Digital will accommodate requests for compassionate leave wherever possible.
- You should speak to your manager at the earliest opportunity to advise of the situation and the likely length of absence.
- All requests are at management discretion.
Jury Service
- Notification: You must notify your manager as soon as practicable, providing a copy of the court summons.
- Approval/Delay: Leave will normally be approved, but Deeply Digital may ask for a delay if the absence will have a serious effect on the business.
- Pay and Attendance: Each day you are absent for jury service will be paid. You must attend work during any period not required by the Court.