Originally Posted by
hockeypilot44
I don't understand. I thought we could call in sick 100 hours per year unverified with no questions asked? Pilots are being harassed before using 100 hours? Oh that's right. We put a clause in our contract letting the company call pilots whenever they feel like it.
Correct. The new clause is yet another partial funding of our COLA pay rate increases.
Originally Posted by
shiznit
The company had more freedom to call and question sick calls under the old PWA.
Incorrect. This
new language allows for "good faith basis". CP's are now using this language to call us
below 100 hours of usage, and we now have contractual requirements to provide them specific information. This is a concession. You trying to spin it otherwise does not make you look good. Now go off to your DALPA sponsors and ask them how you should respond.
Originally Posted by
shiznit
Upper mgt is displeased that there is 100hrs of essentially "unquestionable" time now, and are attempting to work around it.
Management is giddy about this latest concession. By calling pilots below 100 hours...they've already "worked around" it.
Originally Posted by
shiznit
It is IMPERATIVE that every pilot who gets a call about sick leave usage report it to the MEC Contract Admin committee so they can smack the company hard over violations.
You can't be serious. Exactly who in DALPA will "smack the company hard" over this? We don't do that here...we constructively engage. The new "good faith basis" language allows them to call anytime. Our negotiators wrote the language and we voted it in.
Carl