UAL just took a straight percentage off of w-2 or considered earnings.

This actually "hurts" mil guys who were on mil leave, but it is "fair and across the board."

CAL decided to add a "longevity component" to the formula. When you add a longevity lookback, according to USSERA and perhaps LTD rules. Not very knowledgable about LTD. But, reading USSERA is pretty easy.

USSERA says employees who take military leave will not suffer for periods of time they are on military leave......lots of verbage, but short answer is, if you have one employee who receives a benefit of employment as a function of his longevity, or a period of service, then so will a military employee.

So, military guys continue to accrue seniority even while activated, or deployed. All benefits of employment attached to "longevity", "seniority" or periods of service that they were constructively present for shall not count against them.

So, a 48 month look-back to establish a method of calculation for their bonus/retro check is against federal law. CAL MEC knew this, voted in favor of following the law, then did a 180 and decided to send this TA out for a vote even though it violated their own MEC action. So, they high-lighted themselves when the ink dried. Sort of shows premeditation, sort of looks deliberate to me.....Legal word might be willful.

Either the NC had no knowledge of the action, or they disregarded it. I doubt they didn't know since the MEC Chair is a defacto member of the NC and the NC is considered "briefed" since one of their members was present for and in fact allowed the vote to take place. it was thus recorded in the MEC minutes, and further published to the membership.