DL guy, figured I’d put some numbers to it. Sick leave varies by year, but it is quite a bit. It resets every June 1. For example I am on year 6 pay and have 195 hours this year. Years 8-17 are 240 and after that it’s 270 per year

if we have used more than 120 hours the last rolling 12 months, we are required to submit a dr. note for any sick leave until we are under that threshold. This is only if you are already over that threshold at the beginning of the month, if you start the month at 119 and call in sick 2 separate times, neither meets this requirement.

If we used more than 50 hours of sick leave in the last sick year and the CPO has a “good faith basis” reason to ask about our sick call, they can call us and have the ability to ask us for a DR note. For GFB calls they have to provide us the reason for the call, that reason cannot be related to how much sick time we have used, and once verified, none of the time for that sick call is counted towards your 120 look back.

once we call in sick, we are considered sick until we call in well. So if we get a bad cold and miss 3 trips, it’s all considered 1 sick call.

If you used less than 50 hours in the previous sick year, they are not allowed to GFB call you. All dr notes and any associated costs are obviously paid by the company.

due to a grievance settlement, the 120 hour look back is currently suspended until they implement certain automation WRT calling in sick and well on our app instead of physically having to call a scheduler.