Originally Posted by Slick111

Critical pay was SUPPOSED to be trips paid at 1.75 x your normal pay rate, as an incentive to get pilots to voluntarily pick up trips (on their day(s) off, when staffing is short. They use to publish a grid showing the number of open trips, the number of reserves available for that particular day, and if the number of reserves were sufficient for that day If the number of reserves were INSUFFICIENT for that day,..... it was "critical" that someone voluntarily pick up the trip,.... on their off-day(s).

Well, management decided to get cute with the whole critical pay thing by not posting the grid,....... until AFTER the month is over and by arbitrarily changing the number of required reserves, sometimes to zero, (which is obviously ridiculous).