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I am a team lead, my team members are taking a lot leaves, what should I do?

Okay so I am team lead and I created my team from scratch. I hired employees who were from my town/college but I personally didn't knew them. HR was no where in this process.

I trained them, guided them and they worked with me for 1 year but during this process they took many leaves, there was no leave policy introduced for 4 months. Everyone was allowed for 1.5 days leave per month and extra days used to be deducted from salary.

Later leave policy was introduced but no one seemed to follow. My HR was unable to look into this matter. Upon my complaining my boss and HR expected me to manage this. Now after so many months, after getting habitual to no leave policy my team mates were rejecting to adjust with policy and they started taking intentional uninformed leaves.

Now 2 employees resigned as I declined to accept their leaves.

How should I control this and bring discipline... Is it my job or HR and owners job to control their leaves and find replacement?

Update:

EDIT : Because of this mess, my overall performance is down and my boss is not aware of this. I tried to make him aware but he hardly responds and keeps on yelling that my work isn't good. With his little guidance and help this could have been better.

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    5 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    This is not your responsibility anymore. This is the HR or your boss' responsibility to impose.

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  • 5 years ago

    Go work for a company that actually backs up its team leads. You are wasting your talent on a company that just does not care about your skills and accomplishments.

  • Stoo
    Lv 7
    5 years ago

    It's your job to manage the local affairs of the company, in accordance with HR policy. So do so. Anyone who's taking too many leaves of absence doesn't want to work for you, so let them go and find people who actually want to work for you.

  • ?
    Lv 6
    5 years ago

    After you do everything everyone else has suggested...and they are great and amazing suggestions...then look at taking your skills to a different company that will give you the back up and support you need to be successful at what you are obviously good at doing.

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  • Biff
    Lv 7
    5 years ago

    18 days of leave per year is a lot - HR says you're the boss - they follow your rules or they can quit

  • 5 years ago

    Fire the people who violate the policy and hire replacements.

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