Absence without official leave (AWOL)

An employee who absents himself from the workplace on a scheduled workday, will inevitably disrupt the employer’s work schedules, aside from affecting the employer’s customer commitments, amongst other things. To minimise the work disruption due to the slack caused by an absent employee, a regular...

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Main Author: Ali Mohamed, Ashgar Ali
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Malaysian Current Law Journal Sdn Bhd 2015
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spelling iium-423102017-11-24T01:21:32Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/42310/ Absence without official leave (AWOL) Ali Mohamed, Ashgar Ali K Law (General) An employee who absents himself from the workplace on a scheduled workday, will inevitably disrupt the employer’s work schedules, aside from affecting the employer’s customer commitments, amongst other things. To minimise the work disruption due to the slack caused by an absent employee, a regular worker would in normal circumstances assume the added workload. unless and until the annual leave request has been formally and properly approved by the employer, an employee should not absent himself from work. An unauthorised absence from the workplace without any prior approval or permission of the employer is an outright violation of discipline. Hence, in this paper the author argued that a worker who absents himself from work for two or more consecutive days without leave or permission, who exceeds his leave beyond the sanctioned period or who is absent from his place of work without permission, is said to have committed a gross misconduct, and if the allegation is established, the employer is entitled to impose appropriate punishment up to and including dismissal. The Malaysian Current Law Journal Sdn Bhd 2015 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/42310/1/AWOL.pdf Ali Mohamed, Ashgar Ali (2015) Absence without official leave (AWOL). Industrial Law Reports, 1. xvii-xxvii. ISSN 0127-3051
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Ali Mohamed, Ashgar Ali
Absence without official leave (AWOL)
description An employee who absents himself from the workplace on a scheduled workday, will inevitably disrupt the employer’s work schedules, aside from affecting the employer’s customer commitments, amongst other things. To minimise the work disruption due to the slack caused by an absent employee, a regular worker would in normal circumstances assume the added workload. unless and until the annual leave request has been formally and properly approved by the employer, an employee should not absent himself from work. An unauthorised absence from the workplace without any prior approval or permission of the employer is an outright violation of discipline. Hence, in this paper the author argued that a worker who absents himself from work for two or more consecutive days without leave or permission, who exceeds his leave beyond the sanctioned period or who is absent from his place of work without permission, is said to have committed a gross misconduct, and if the allegation is established, the employer is entitled to impose appropriate punishment up to and including dismissal.
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author Ali Mohamed, Ashgar Ali
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title Absence without official leave (AWOL)
title_short Absence without official leave (AWOL)
title_full Absence without official leave (AWOL)
title_fullStr Absence without official leave (AWOL)
title_full_unstemmed Absence without official leave (AWOL)
title_sort absence without official leave (awol)
publisher The Malaysian Current Law Journal Sdn Bhd
publishDate 2015
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/42310/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/42310/1/AWOL.pdf
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