Originally Posted by
Oberon
I'm not sure exactly what issues the company has with sick time but I'm guessing a spike in sick time right before it resets raises eyebrows. I haven't seen any stats on this but human nature you know...
If sick leave was left unchanged except it reset on our date of hire instead of June 1 would that be palatable? In theory that would spread sick leave more evenly throughout the year and maybe the company would be less interested in cracking down on sick leave abuse. A potential downside is less required staffing but I'm guessing May isn't the month they staff for anyway.
In corporate America Delta would win the award for coming up with a sick policy that encourages the absolute most amount of abuse possible. I've worked under 3 different sick policies in my career and the current one we have has got to be the dumbest plan ever that a management team has come up with.
Give us a bank option so we don't lose the time we have accrued, and give us the option of selling back a portion over a threshold and you will see sick time fall right in line with all the other pilot groups in the industry.