The document outlines an employee attendance policy, including defining absenteeism, causes of absenteeism such as accidents/illnesses and personal/transportation problems, trends in absenteeism, goals of an attendance policy, the new employee process, consequences of absenteeism such as innocent versus culpable absenteeism, ways to deal with absenteeism including changing management style and working conditions, benefits of employee retention such as saving costs, and an employee termination process involving warnings and termination after three offenses.