Originally Posted by
thefoxsays
Basiclly, from the day you call in SK, until well is counted as sick days.
Not just the actual days of work missed.
Example.
You call in sick the day before a four day trip. (Sunday)
The trip, 4 days, is Mon-Thur.
You forget or don't call in well until the following Sunday. (Regardless of when really well).
So, instead of counting that as one sick call at four days missed (lost) work, the company counts it as 7 days out sick.
That's the short of it.... So when DAL says we use more sick time, it's flawed. I forgot to call in well because it's a new system for me. Now my missed work log (whatever it's called, either in iCrew or PAS) shows me out 12 days even though I only was out for a 3 day trip. So to the company it looks like I used 4 times the amount of SK I actually used.
It'll be interesting to see what you find out. To this point, I had been thinking that when someone claimed that our sick leave use was x% higher than our peers at other airlines, that this was directly related to how much our sick time was costing the company ($ value). If that were true (and I don't know that it is), the number of days for the occurrence would be irrelevant because it would still be costing the same since we are only paid sick leave for work missed. Missing off days doesn't increase the cost in a way I can think of.
We track the calendar days missed because that is what the contract requires for one of the verification components. They have to track that to comply. I don't know if they also track it as a means of comparison.