Originally Posted by
BobZ
Saying there is sick leave abuse is like saying if you don't cash your full paycheck.....there is payroll abuse.
sick leave is an earned component of each pilots compensation. It should be highly insulting for any party to insinuate using earned compensation is somehow 'abuse' or otherwise undeserved.
How about this idea.....we agree to zero paid sick leave.....all delta has to do in exchange is increase each pilots monthly credit by the number of hours that would have previously been earned as sick leave?
See....problem solved. No more sick leave abuse. Its a 'win-win' all the way around.
Bob,
Not intending to pizz you off, but I think the company's perspective on sick leave is more of an "insurance", in case you get sick/injured. We get about the 3 months a year in case you get real sick or injured. The philosophy was pretty much call in sick if you are sick, come to work if you are well. No bank, no notes. (Pretty sure we have always had some type of privacy issues WRT the company requesting a medical release if they thought there was gross abuse)
Do you feel that you haven't gotten your money's worth on the fire insurance you purchase for your home each year if it doesn't burn down?
The change in 2012 to 100 hours of "unverified" sick usage might have actually lead to the increase in usage. Many pilots now look at sick time from your posted point of view. We are now living with the fallout of the transition from what could be thought of as an insurance type of model to a bank/use it or lose it model. Both systems rely on us to be good corporate citizens, but the 2012 system of a quantified value (100 hours) makes our sick benefit seem more like a bank system that you waste by not using.
It does seem weird that we are trusted with hundreds of lives and hundreds of millions but need to behave like a walmart worker when we get sick....
Fly Safe