Originally Posted by
gloopy
Exactly. Show me any sick call on any pilot's line and I can do aggressive DA looking for a resume padding conviction and come up with something that could be interpreted under the incredibly meaningless standard of "good faith basis" if I wanted to. The only bulwark we have with language that pathetic is the sheer number of inquiries. Its hard for them to come after all of us at once. But they can come after any of us for any reason any time they want. And we gave them that ability through blind trust and that was a mistake. Pilots will fly sick because of this policy. We're accepting some level of intimidation and pilot pushing with unilateral pro company contractual sophistry, perhaps because we were naive or perhaps because we thought it would help monetize something else by reducing over all sick calls and subsequent staffing plans and hoping we get a cut of that. If you have something that can be easily documented, you're bulletproof. For many pilots who just don't feel well however, they will be bullied into flying sick. Just not super duper sick. When pilots worry more about getting an "ops check good, could not duplicate" from a company doctor, they will fly sick. Guaranteed.
You do realize that they could do the EXACT same thing under the old contract, right? So why would anymore pilots fly sick under this policy? And if you call in sick, & can't verify do you get punished? I haven't heard of anyone being disciplined. You simply don't get your time verified. And now you get 100 hours of unverified time. Under the old contract the company could verify ANY sick leave usage.
I think people are blowing this entire thing out of proportion.