Originally Posted by
Planetrain
Read the contract sec 14. If you qualify for disability - you don't have to take it - key word qualify, the 100 hour resets. Who on cancer treatment isn't going to qualify?
95% of broken bones and hospital admission for an acute condition can be verified at your option and wont count towards the 100 hours. I think broken fingers, toes, and like 3 bones in your inner ear are the ones not considered "major".
If you're at 106 hours, you have the incredible burden of going to a QHCP, ie Walgreens nurse, if you get a cold and if it happens to fall on days on where you call out sick.
By the way, if you used less than 50 hours sick the last 2 years, no sick hours are subject to verification.
This is so minor of a burden, especially compared to my friends that live in the cubicle world, outside of aviation.
Just like C2012, you still get paid if you're sick!!!
I'm just a little annoyed that I had surgery and had an internal organ removed from my body and that doesn't count. And when I asked my Chief Pilot what a QHCP note meant, they had NO idea. He spouted off the "if you have more than 100 hrs but not 160..." So I went to my regular doctor so I wouldn't make a mistake and get the wrong kind of note.
I'm not trying to get away with calling in sick when I'm not - I'm annoyed that my actual sickness now require a note for sicknesses than a normal person just goes to work, but because I'm a pilot I can't. And then the doctor thinks I'm being a pain, and I'm on the hook for the cost of it too.