Originally Posted by
pilotc90a
Isnt it strange that on the front page of DL Net they have an article pushing the benefits of this new program. One that is specifically excluded from the verification of illness requirements on this TA?
While I realize there are other employees that can take advantage of this program, we cannot (or should not).
Sick verification aside, don't think that any of your medical records are private if the company is paying the bill. Meaning, if you use Delta's health plans, they already know what medications you are taking, what tests were prescribed. Delta is a self funding inured. They may not know the diagnosis, but they know too much in my opinion.
And none of this has anything to do with verifying a nonverifiable grey area illness like an upset stomach, aches, pains, nausea, diarrhea, headaches, etc in many cases. So unless a hostile third party can empirically prove it with hard verifiable symptoms, you better suck it up and fly sick or else.
Also, the 15 days unverified is really 14 days, since the 15th day is the trigger. And since that's in a rolling 365 day period, statistically you will almost never get to use all 14 in a calendar year without bumping up against the rolling year.
Oh and even if you verify it, and assuming its verifiable, and assunimg they accept it, you still have to pay.
Worst section in the entire TA, and easily, easily the single biggest single issue no vote, by far.