Originally Posted by
gloopy
So we should hope the company starts "going after" almost 2000 of our pilots?
I'm sure that's not what you meant, but we need to be very defensive over what is quite often a highly subjective front burner safety issue.
I'm sure there are a few abusers or whatever. Maybe even some that are obvious. But it ain't nowhere near 2000 of us. There's 52 weekends a year plus a lot of holidays sprinkled into almost every month. Any sick call can be painted as "suspicious" if you try hard enough. If they want to offer a voluntary sellback system or perhaps change the yearly reset to your hire date (as someone mentioned) fine. But we shouldn't allow, much less partner with, any effort to reduce or hassle hundreds to perhaps thousands of our own over a basic subjective safety issue.
The way I see it, it's not MY problem to deal with sick leave abuse, that is for the company.
First, as you said, the company needs to prove it. Then, the company needs to address it, with the perpetrators, and leave the rest of us alone.
Why should 100% of us have a reduced benefit for what the company claims is a small percentage who abuse it?
The ATL. CPO told me that management said we use twice as much as the other carriers. Yet the other carriers incentivize it, either through a rollover/bank or a cash payout. No wonder they don't use as much!
But it's an apples to oranges comparison. We have a 'use it or lose it' program, they do not. This company isn't going to go out of business due to 15% of our guys they claim are abusing it. I think it's just some bean counter on the 4th floor's little pet project to crack down on the abuse, so he can justify his job.