Customize a Letter to your employees
- Send your employees a customized letter
informing them about how they can be prepared for flu season and your expectations that they will stay home if they are sick. - Send an e-mail encouraging employees to stay home if they are sick and giving them instructions on how to protect themselves from getting the flu.
- If your letter is telling employees about an outbreak among co-workers, remind employees that if they believe they have been exposed to a sick co-worker they should monitor themselves for symptoms of influenza-like illness and stay home if they are sick.
- Attach a copy of your nonprofit’s sick leave policy or family leave policy or any special policy that addresses absenteeism during flu season.
H1N1 Resources
- Help employees understand the symptoms of the flu.
- Sign your key staff up for e-mail updates from the CDC about the flu.
- Distribute a downloadable H1N1 Fact Sheet to all employees in English
or Spanish . - Complete Communications Kit from the CDC
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