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Working time and absences management

Welcome to the Absence Management home page.

On these pages you will find detailed information on managing your absences, legal references and our contacts.

Our knowledge base contains a wide range of procedures to help you with the process: EPFL – portail Sesame : Absences

A systematic and regular registration of absences enables a better information sharing and work organisation within a team. Daily updated data is accessible to all employees at any time.

Absences management system enables EPFL to carry out its employer’s obligations relating to reporting requirements linked with external funding as well as preserving its employees health by providing time for rest. Data extracted from the system provides a calculation basis for financial provision as well as various statistics (such as the social evaluation) published by EPFL.

All EPFL-funded employees are required to record their absences (worked and non-worked) in the absence management account.

Rules and Regulations

  • Standardise time management within EPFL
  • Enforce the Rules and Regulations concerning Working Time Managament (RGT), which is part of the POLYLEX legal documents (LEX 4.1.4)
  • Enable EPFL to carry out its employer’s legal obligations relating to vacation, long term absences and so on
  • Provide units with a managerial and follow-up tool of their team
  • Provide compulsory reporting, especially for research projects benefiting from external funding
  • Enable EPFL to issue various reports and statistics for social evaluation
  • Meet the needs of IPSAS standards in relations to financial provisions

Contact

From Monday to Thursday, 9 am to 6 pm

Absences Helpdesk

E-mail:
[email protected]

Telephone:
+41 21 693 38 65 (Diana Freese)
+41 21 693 38 85 (Pascale Guillot)

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