Originally Posted by
744ButtonPusher
What provision of uSERRA says we should get PS for our mil leave? At least make your reply make sense. By that logic we should get full pay too for any trips dropped for mil leave. And since we don't get PS on mil leave (as it should be) theres nothing for me to return.
We at DAL get it because our 401k is pensionable, that's it. I'm certain that if Delta was forced to do it, they would not.
Originally Posted by
744ButtonPusher
I would rather see new hires who are out flying the line get PS before a guy who bangs out on mil leave for 4-6 years and still wants to be compensated by a company they are not actively working for.
Not everyone who is on MLOA, is doing the 5 year USERRA thing, or "abusing" MLOA. I've lost out on LOTS of things due to going on orders for deployments (pretty much the only long term MLOA I ever took). I wasn't able to both bid for vacation (I got the scraps left over) AND have my full vacation allotment for eight of my 10 years at DAL. Many of those years the leftovers were the often sought after Feb/Mar vacations lol. Even the year after I retired, I didn't get my full allotment of vacation due to a deployment the year prior. At Delta if you are docked just one day of vacation (you don't have a full 7 days), you don't get to bid that week as a separate vacation week, it just gets tagged on to one of your other vacations. Catch is, both weeks have to be available for you to get that vacation, so it was easy to get screwed out of a good week due to this crap.
Either way, it's the cost of doing business for mil guys (I'm retired now), just as paying mil guys PS is the cost of doing business for Delta. I believe that people on long term disability should get PS as well. A seniority list pilot is a seniority list pilot.