employee has 3 occurrences of absences in a rolling three-month period. These dates are as follow: March 5, 2024 April 23, 2024 May 3, 2024 list steps to investigate ABSENCE MONITORING PROCEDURES 1. Employees who must be absent from work are responsible for notifying their manager or supervisor when they are off ad when they expect to return to work in accordance with their departmental policy. If an employee is absent for three or more days, he/she must provide a physician release for return to work. This is necessary to ensure that the employee is medically able to return to work for both the employee's and patients' protection. Leaves of absence that may qualify under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) are subject to approval and require the employee to provide medical documentation of the need for the leave every 30 days during the leave. 2. Should an emergency cause an employee to be late, the employee must notify the supervisor (or designated contact person) as soon as possible in accordance with departmental policy. 3. Unscheduled time off, paid or unpaid, for personal or emergency reasons may be considered as absences for the purpose of tracking attendance, unless the employee is eligible to use and has accrued paid time off in accordance with the Cook County Earned Sick Leave Ordinance and/or the Chicago Paid Sick Leave Ordinance. Unscheduled absences will be tracked by the supervisors. 4. Excessive unscheduled absences may result in performance counseling up to