I'm looking at it right now, and all I can say is you are wrong.

The company can only presently inquire and ask you about the general nature of illness, and only if it's over 7 days of absence can they require a doctors note. This new language adds the "discussion with chief pilot" and also adds the benchmark of 100 hours of usage where you MUST provide a doctors certificate to the company. It also STRIKES the part where verification is not normally required for absences less than 7 days in duration (that is huge), and ADDS language that allows pretty much ANY absence to be subject to the program.

Now pretty much every pilot I know will be providing a doctors note to the company, under this TA, whereas before none was REQUIRED. This is a huge win for the companys Sick Leave Monitoring Program that ALPA falsely claims was eliminated, and a huge concession for the pilots... heck, it could cost you your very job.

It also adds language where you "may" "VERIFY" your illness to the CPO by providing a doctors certificate to them, otherwise your illness will be considered "UNVERIFIED". In other words, you are not really sick and will be considered an abuser subject to inquiry unless you provide a DOCTORS CERTIFICATE for EVERY ILLNESS. That's what this section creates! Can't anyone see that? The Flight Attendants currently have this!!

In other, other words... The company no longer needs to call you when you are sick, because YOU"LL BE CALLING THEM!!!

And if you think that's brilliant, get this: YOU'LL be paying the doctor unless the CPO specifically asks you for verification. But you'll verify anyway, because that's how this program is set up. It's all on YOU. Every time you get sick you'll be thinking "should I go to the Doctor and get a verification in case I get sick again sometime this year?" And you will!