Originally Posted by
cni187
You people are all idiots. Read your current contract section 15B. The new sick leave is only about changing the 100 hour requirement to a day's missed requirement. If there weren't people abusing the system right now then we wouldn't be discussing this. I've had captains tell me without my asking about times they called in sick and weren't sick. You know you're out there and I think the ones most upset about this are guilty parties. Where's the integrity in that huh?
"The new sick leave is only about changing the 100 hour requirement to a days missed requirement" - simply not true! Please educate yourself better on the TA before making statements like this.
The reduction of unverified sick leave from 100 hours to 15 day/80ish hours is only part of the change - and minor in my opinion.
Much more punitive is the removal of the ability to voluntarily verify a sick occurrence as specified in section 14.F.2 of the current PWA and preserve your unverified sick leave for minor issues, like colds. This means any sick occurrence, such as a sprained ankle, hernia procedure, etc. will count against your 15 days - you can't voluntarily verify it under this TA.
The loss of the ability to voluntarily verify will undoubtedly result in many more pilots exhausting their "unverified" sick leave than under the current PWA. Any subsequent minor illness in the next 365 days, like a cold, will require you to get a doctor's note - punitive in my opinion.
I've heard stories of certain categories having 25 percent of the pilots sick on almost any given day. I've heard other stories of pilots using all 270 hours sick leave every year, and it's all "verified." If that is true, and if the company wants to go after that, have at it - just don't penalize the rest of us.