Originally Posted by
navigatro
Yes, other forms of leave at UAL accrue sick time. Therein lies the USERRA violation. USERRA mandates that MIL leave gets the same benefits as any other leave. It could differ from airline to airline as each contract is different.
I think the actual issue comes from post merger treatment.
Regular Leaves of Absence don't accrue Sick Leave, but Military LOAs always have at original United. At CAL they apparently did not. After the merger, the UA side still gave SL accrual to their ML pilots while the CAL side did not. Since we were one company after the merger, you couldn't have one pilot on ML not getting SL accrual while another pilot on ML did get accrual.