Absenteeism is the failure of employees to appear on the job when they are scheduled to work. It is becoming a serious unhealthy practice in labour oriented industries like Tea industry. Absenteeism is a serious workplace problem and an expensive occurrence for both employers and employees seemingly unpredictable in nature. A thorough literature review was done to study the existing researches which study absenteeism in tea gardens. The Book is the result of survey that was conducted on 80 staff members on two worker designations i.e. Tilla Babu and Sardar at Rosekandy Tea Estate which is a very reputed Tea garden in North East region of India. A structured closed ended schedule was prepared to get the primary data from the tea garden labours. The top reasons for absenteeism were higher wages available to workers in the employment other than that of tea garden, maternity/paternity leave reasons, own illness etc. The findings of the research portray the issues faced by the labours and will be useful for the tea garden managers and owners in reducing absenteeism leading to better productivity in the tea gardens and saving them from loss of revenue.
