Originally Posted by
Flamer
From WSC: "On an X-day has no obligation to be contactable or to be in a position to report for an inverse assignment."
These attempts from scheduling have been happening more than the pilot group is being led to believe. Threats, pressure and loss of pay are being applied. Know your contract, and call ALPA scheduling. As long as we keep falling for scheduling's fishing expeditions, we have no leverage and worse, you might do something illegal. Far 117 haas been relatively cost neutral mainly because we have not made a unified stand to operate 100% in accordance with the contract. I get it. No one likes to deal with the high pressure threats coming out of the CPO from your fellow seniority list members.
Spot on Flamer.
Although a pilot has no obligation to be contactable on his x-days, is it possible (anyone know if it's FAR legal) that scheduling could assign (on your last on-call day when you ARE contactable) a 30-hr rest period that begins at midnight on your next to last x-day, plus the first 6 hours of your first on-call day and say "there's your 30 hour rest period"?
Or, even worse, could they assign the entire 30 hour rest period on your x-days (ending at midnight before you start LC on your first reserve day) BEFORE you begin your x-days?
I hope that's not the case, but you're right about the fact they have been doing some, shall we say, creative scheduling.
Here's one reason I don't think these two examples could fly. A pilot requesting either a YS or a GS for those days would be shown as "on rest" and would probably not show up in their coverage list.