Originally Posted by
Dynamohum
Here is the thing about this "sick leave abuse" boogeyman that the company has created. The company does not need to address this through our CBA. There are labor law cases, as well as disability cases, that show companies firing individuals over abuse. As long as the company presents evidence of abuse there is not an arbitrator or court which will prevent termination of said abuser. Gathering this "evidence" takes man power, which the company is too lazy to provide. So get us to fix it. And they get the bone us of creating a nightmare for all of us and many will simply fly sick. Brilliant!
But that is the catch. The company simply wants us to fix this problem. And they want to do so with onerous plans that affect all of us negatively. So since they have the ability to bring this evidence forward and terminate the abusers, you have to ask why they want to fix this so called abuse.
In my opinion it is not really about the few abusers. The company wants to create more efficiencies in their favor. This is but one more item to give them greater pilot utilization.
And what do our Moakist union boys do? Jump right on it for the company. Sheep.
This is my opinion only about sick time abuse/use at this company and the spike they now see. If you remember the company wanted the current sick time policy back in 2012. There were two consequences that they didn't foresee. 1. People actually verifying illnesses before they reached 100 hours, so they continually roll the 100 hours of unverified and 2. now this is total speculation, people that used to be afraid to call in sick if they had the sniffles, meaning they didn't intend on going to see a doctor, now call in sick because they don't worry about a CPO call.
Now they should have been calling in sick all along but they didn't want the harassment or potential for harassment so they just sucked it up and came to work with a runny nose or cough. Now they actually call in sick. Again this is opinion only.