Originally Posted by
slowplay
At the MEC meeting the negotiating committee put up a bunch of slides on our sick leave use and its change over time. I'm working from notes, so I apologize for any errors. Since 2012 sick leave usage is up 30%. The top 20% of sick leave users that don't go on disability use 50% of our sick leave. 5% of our pilots use more than 40 days per year and never go TD or LTD.
They also addressed that demographically our aging pilot group should only use about 1% more, not 30% more. There has been a pilot behavior change. UAL and AMR's sick leave has decreased (no data provided) but both those properties have substantially more punitive sick leave provisions than we do, beginning with only 60 hours of accrual.
They said because of increased costs this is one of management's top priorities.
I hope one of the notepads covers this, as sick leave was just a few slides in a big deck.
Thanks for the information, appreciate it.
Yeah, I hope they put a notepad out soon. It seems that, at the moment, if we throw enough money at it everyone will not notice.
As I've said several times, if there is a problem.......shoot the guilty and leave the rest of us alone. Shoot, I remember a Chief Pilot at NWA complaining about sick usage over 15 years ago.......it's what they DO!!
