Originally Posted by
cal73
IMO you aren’t paid out unused sick time at retirement and that’s unlikely to change. So having ~ enough sick time each year to get you to the LTD threshold of 3 months is key. I’ll take DAL’s sick policy all things remaining equal. I’m not betting anything.
That would depend on how long someone has been here. If you are new, or someone who has depleted their bank due to legitimate/illegitimate use, a Delta type plan would be better. For someone who has been here for a while, having a much larger sick bank built up is better since you can burn that and not even deal with LTD. In a situation where LTD stays as it currently is, I’d rather have our current plan once my sick bank is over the 90 days to LTD threshold.
You’re right about not getting credit for unused time when you retire, and I’m baffled by people who retire with 1,000 hour sick banks. A large sick bank would be better until the last years of your career, but at that point you’d have to be crazy not to burn it down to zero.