Tool:

I have read the new sick leave provisions and I two very specific problems. These are not MYTHS so please stop with the straw man argument and address the following.

1. The old contract (14 G) only gives the company the right for a medical release if they have a good faith basis to question a sick occurrence. The new contract gives them the right to require it anytime they want - either because you have exceeded the 15 day verification threshold and they don't like what your doctor sent in, or you have exceeded the medical release threshold.

2. The self verification option has beed removed.

Once you have to provide a medical release to an AME anything he sees has to go to the FAA. There is a real concern about a loss of privacy here. To sell this as an improvement to privacy as ALPA us currently doing is beyond disingenuous .