Originally Posted by
TED74
The only assurance I really want is that I'll be paid in accordance with the contract. It doesn't matter if it is intentional or by way of negligence; underpayment by any amount is theft of our rightful earnings. Of course people scream when a Fortune 500 company can't pay its employees properly - is that surprising? Shorting us multiple millions of dollars a year is disgusting. I'd love to see a punitive finding that would finally force the company to improve their processes and pay us correctly. It is maddening that a good portion of DALPA's resources must be squandered recovering underpayments.
98% of the payments ALPA gets for pilots are not payroll errors. They are crew scheduling errors. Until you eliminate people in CS there will always be errors. Once white slips are automated I suspect there will be a large drop in issues. Reroute would be the only remaining problem and since some of reroute is subjective a contract rewrite is the best way to fix that.