Originally Posted by gloopy

Sick time is for times you are sick. And sick means when you are unable to legally self certify to fly. That includes a ton of times when some 3rd party hatchet man won't always be able to "verify" your upset stomach or nausea or squirts or headache or sore back or whatever. Not all "sick" time is for an easily verifiable flu. And even an easily verifiable flu isn't easy to verify if you don't go bow before a suspicious and potentially hostile 3rd party during the peak of your symptoms.

This is a huge safety issue.

Not only that, the nonsense that the group being 3 years older should only account for 0.1% more sick leave is insane. Medical issues increase exponentially in your final 3 years, not a combines 0.1% increase. I suspect to get that fantasy number they took the average age of the entire group including all the new hires which drastically lowers the average.

In any case, this new policy is a huge assault on our ability to self certify and it WILL result in many, many more pilots flying sick and result in less safety in a supposed attempt to crack down on a handful of "abusers" who will likely continue to "abuse" it anyway because many of them already have the medical stuff already in place to call out whenever they want anyway and there's nothing anyone can do about that.

This is a horrible policy and reason enough to vote no.