This led not just to a massive decline in absenteeism, but also to better pupil performance.
In the 1970s and early 1980s, it had a reputation for worker absenteeism, drinking and drug use, and overall shoddy quality (workers were alleged to have put empty Coke bottles in door panels, so the bottles would rattle and annoy customers).
Current absenteeism rates show a startling 17 sick days a year, two-and-a-half times greater than the private sector figure.
Depression is a major cause of disability, absenteeism, and productivity loss among working-age adults .
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Sean Rogers of the SDLP said absenteeism was not only a problem in inner-city areas.
Most obstetricians view this absenteeism problem as just a cost of doing business.
Mr Walker said the waste management department absenteeism rate had remained at a similar level.
Rather disappointedly, there has been no mass absenteeism - or "chucking a sickie", which, I am reliably informed, is the correct terminology.
Asthma can become a constant problem that results in school absenteeism.
The Crofting Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 has measures designed to reduce absenteeism, the failure by a tenant to live on their croft or assign it to someone else.
We've found they have low rates of absenteeism and turnover, which reduces a company's recruitment and retention costs.
Many small-business owners already struggle with managing turnover and absenteeism, says John Haltiwanger, a professor of economics at the University of Maryland, who adds that small firms generally don't have human-resources departments.
Mr Beggs singled-out Carrickfergus College in his constituency as a school with an excellent record of dealing with absenteeism.
It may reduce turnover, absenteeism, and union elections and as a result lower some costs, but it will not cause employees to be more productive.
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In other words, administrators see the technologies as a way to protect revenues from the impact of mass absenteeism.
He said the introduction of secondary school banding, which takes account of absenteeism data, also appears to have been a factor in the improvement.
"It's more thought of as child care for when the parent needs it as opposed to the child's development and really helping prepare for early literacy skills that are going to be the foundation for school, " said Chang, director of Attendance Works, a Maryland-based initiative that mentors districts in fighting absenteeism.
Mahaffey ticked off a list of counterproposals--involving break time, overtime, absenteeism and janitorial services.
Innovative BioDefense says a study is under way testing Zylast's effect on elementary-school absenteeism, and additional research is planned on illnesses on cruise ships and in nursing homes.
One is that we look at investing in health as we do in any other investment, with a payback in terms of not only lower costs for health care, but reduced absenteeism and reduced presenteeism.
He began carrying a notebook everywhere, sketching shoes. (One of his early drawings depicts a cloven stiletto, with two heels.) Louboutin, who had kept up his absenteeism, was expelled from school when he was sixteen.
Absenteeism was so rampant the district even lured kids in for the first day by offering a chance at Saints tickets to those who showed up.
The other teacher who was rated poorly was rated in a category in which a teacher "frequently calls out sick on staff development days" and has shown "patterns of absenteeism and tardiness" exceeding the district's standards.
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They quoted research carried out in a campaign led by TV chef Jamie Oliver that healthy meals helped children do better at school and cut rates of absenteeism.
"There was an inquiry into absenteeism in 2005 and it came up with general solutions, but the problem was not corrected and so a second inquiry last year came up with radical options, " Mr Walker added.
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