Originally Posted by
ranger3484
That sounds like what's happening. Is that legal? I thought the purpose of putting in MLOA pre bid was such that scheduling can work around your MLOA days and still give you guarantee. I suppose if you were a line holder and dropped 2 days the entire month they'd be able to still build you a REG line. However, if you dropped multiple days, at some point they'd be unable to build you a line withing the line construction window. Perhaps it's to make RES MLOA fair with REG MLOA. A reserve guy could easily still get his days. Instead, I get penalized. I don't think I will pre-drop (MLOA) again.
Ranger
Ranger,
I believe you are looking at it wrong. What I mean is that if DAL built you a full 18 day schedule, they would be effectively forcing you perform your mil duty on your days off which they cannot. I think the logic is that they are trying to comply by giving you a sort of "work credit" for each day of duty you perform for the gov't. Said another way, Since the employer can't force you to work for Uncle Sam only on your days off, they have to credit you some DAL time i.e. lowering your alv (sort of), number of reserve days required etc.
The only way to get the full 70 guarantee and work the reserve on top is to put in for no MLOA before the bid closes and work your military duty in between your DAL sched without dropping any days. I often do this to the ire of my better half. 18 days at DAL and 6 at the Reserve unit means 6 total days off in the month assuming DAL is 100% same-day commutable (doesn't happen for me). YMMV.
Best...Philly