Originally Posted by
sailingfun
The 7 day provision has always been there and almost never used by the company. Any company has a right to find out why a employee is absent. This agreement actually changes 7 to 15 days and forces the company to pay for the medical visit if required.
I did see that language written over in the TA, sailing. I understand that part. But, more significantly, I think what's in the note was put there for a reason and has legal significance. I won't get into the specifics, but that's what I was trying to point out to fly.
Either way, the more obvious sick leave usage tightening is the requirement for a doctors note for sick time used over 100 hours.
At first glance (and the second one, too), it looks like we are ushering in a more restrictive sick leave/doctors note policy for the former NWA pilots who fly the 747-400 than they had before.
Do you agree that if you were on the 747-000, that that provision would limit you to one sick call per year before before you would
have to provide a doctors certificate? Or, is there somewhere else in the TA that mitigates this?