Originally Posted by Roadkill

Sick verification-- I think you're right. I know someone who already has gotten a call from the CPO. He used sick once now since the contract change, didn't verify it, and got a call from the CPO checking on it's "good faithness".

That sounds pretty fishy. (On the company's part) The way I read the contract, if you don't "verify" your sick leave, the company has to have a "good faith basis" to inquire about the sick leave and it cannot be based on usage. I'd be calling the Union on this one.

On the other hand the CPO took his "yes/no" answers and said "ok, verified". Yes, the system "worked" because the cpo was a decent guy...Still, it's the threat of them calling whenever they feel they have a reason to check. Which they obviously felt was ok on the first sick use of the year with no regard to the 100 hrs of unverified available.

Again, the way I read the contract, if you "verify" a usage of sick leave the company can ask for a doctors note. If you don't verify (using your 100 hrs), they need to have a "good faith basis" to inquire. That good faith basis cannot be based on usage.

I absolutely knew that all the naive glass half-full wait-and-see folks were wrong on this sick leave aspect of the contract, and that their expectations that the vagueness in the contract would NOT be used to the fullest against us by the company was wishful thinking. Now I feel I've been proven right within days of the new sick leave going into effect.

In past contracts the company could always request a verification of sick leave usage if they wanted too. That has not changed. I suspect that, eventually, a grievance will be filed to fine tune what a "good faith basis" is. It sure doesn't sound like the company had that in your buddy's case.

And yes, I did tell my buddy to report it to ALPA for their data collection per their note they sent out.

I hope he did!