Originally Posted by
SoFloFlyer
My buddy told me that the CPO only gets involved after burning through 120 hours of sick (compared to our 5 occurrences). If what you say true about CPOs going after pilots that way, I believe it has to do with the fact that another contract cycle is about to happen. Their management isn’t follow the contract the way it’s supposed to be followed because “interpretation.” My speculation anyways.I think our approach to sick plus the reset method would work well imo. People just don’t like change
the 120 hours is in a rolling 12 months look back. They are entitled to make a “good faith basis inquiry”. Which means they can ask you to go to a medical professional and have them sign a form stating the general nature of the illness. I am pretty sure they will reimburse your expenses too. Other scenarios where they can make a GFB inquiry are sick on holidays, sick after being awarded a reserve assignment, sick on either end of a vacation block, and maybe a couple others not sure. It’s kind of a haze but it’s their only defense against people burning every single hour of their sick time come end of the sick year. Also if you have called in sick less than 50 hours in the preceding year you’re immune from random GFB calls in the current year.