Other than actual illness, one of the biggest problems for companies today is fake sick days – employees playing hooky by calling in sick when they feel fine. How much revenue does your company lose every year because of fake sick days?
Instead of threatening your employees with suspension, termination or other unpleasant things if they fake a sick day (remember that throughout history, the people, ideas, movements, organizations, religions, etc. that were persecuted the most always spread the fastest), just take away their desire to fake sick days. If they don’t want to fake sick days, they won’t.