Compass Benefits
08-05-2008, 07:33 PM
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Compass Benefits
Can anyone share info on Compass benefits. Looking for info from a family perspective, e.g. family health/dental insurance, travel bennies, vacation, etc. Do the travel benefits include Delta? or NWA only? If so, what are Delta travel bennies like? I heard the NW travel bennies are not the best. Thanks!
.... What's training pay like? When does training pay start?
.... What's training pay like? When does training pay start?
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08-06-2008, 05:38 AM
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I just interviewed on recently and here's the info I got:
Insurance is same as NWA employees get. BC&BS with employee contribution $295/mo for entire family, down to $90/mo for just yourself. Dental, Life Insurance, AD&D, LTD is also available. Benefits are available 30 days after your hire date.
Travel is available immediately on NWA for you and family, DL benefits start after six months employment. From what I gathered you travel free on NWA unless its first class. Sounds like they have several interline (ZED, ID90, etc) agreements available as well.
13 days of vacation are accrued your first year.
Training pay is as follows. 15hrs for completing the homestudy, paid 3-1/2 hrs per day for indoc in MSP, then min monthly guarantee+24hrs/day per diem for the month in YUL. I did the math and that comes out to around $2900 for the entire training event.
Insurance is same as NWA employees get. BC&BS with employee contribution $295/mo for entire family, down to $90/mo for just yourself. Dental, Life Insurance, AD&D, LTD is also available. Benefits are available 30 days after your hire date.
Travel is available immediately on NWA for you and family, DL benefits start after six months employment. From what I gathered you travel free on NWA unless its first class. Sounds like they have several interline (ZED, ID90, etc) agreements available as well.
13 days of vacation are accrued your first year.
Training pay is as follows. 15hrs for completing the homestudy, paid 3-1/2 hrs per day for indoc in MSP, then min monthly guarantee+24hrs/day per diem for the month in YUL. I did the math and that comes out to around $2900 for the entire training event.
08-06-2008, 10:21 PM
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Originally Posted by cfitstew
13 days of vacation are accrued your first year.
Ex. I was hired Early sept 07 I was awarded 4 days of vacation for this year. Someone hired in first half of Dec 07 had 1 day of vacation for the 08 year. If you are hired after the 15th of a month you are not awarded a day for that month.
Also Vacation is payed at 3.5 hours per day you take not what you were scheduled to work. Ex. I had a 27 hour 5 day trip over my vacation and was only paid for (4 x 3.5) 14 hours for it. In other words I lost 13 hours of pay for taking my vacation days this year.
Yes this is a weeker point in our contract. I wish we could get it changed to an hourly build up of vacation pay not a so called daily one since we dont get paid what we were scheduled to work.
08-07-2008, 08:18 AM
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Originally Posted by skid
Since you would likely be hired for a class in Sept to Oct at this point in time you can count on only 3-4 days of vacation for the 2009 year.
Ex. I was hired Early sept 07 I was awarded 4 days of vacation for this year. Someone hired in first half of Dec 07 had 1 day of vacation for the 08 year. If you are hired after the 15th of a month you are not awarded a day for that month.
Also Vacation is payed at 3.5 hours per day you take not what you were scheduled to work. Ex. I had a 27 hour 5 day trip over my vacation and was only paid for (4 x 3.5) 14 hours for it. In other words I lost 13 hours of pay for taking my vacation days this year.
Yes this is a weeker point in our contract. I wish we could get it changed to an hourly build up of vacation pay not a so called daily one since we dont get paid what we were scheduled to work.
Ex. I was hired Early sept 07 I was awarded 4 days of vacation for this year. Someone hired in first half of Dec 07 had 1 day of vacation for the 08 year. If you are hired after the 15th of a month you are not awarded a day for that month.
Also Vacation is payed at 3.5 hours per day you take not what you were scheduled to work. Ex. I had a 27 hour 5 day trip over my vacation and was only paid for (4 x 3.5) 14 hours for it. In other words I lost 13 hours of pay for taking my vacation days this year.
Yes this is a weeker point in our contract. I wish we could get it changed to an hourly build up of vacation pay not a so called daily one since we dont get paid what we were scheduled to work.
Hey I'm curious, how senior do those five-day trips usually go, what is the average report/release time and what are they usually worth?
They must be great for commuters.
08-07-2008, 08:54 AM
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Originally Posted by contrails
Hey I'm curious, how senior do those five-day trips usually go, what is the average report/release time and what are they usually worth?
They must be great for commuters.
They must be great for commuters.
08-07-2008, 05:12 PM
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MEM is the most junior. Then DTW. MSP is the most senior, but apparently people in training are holding it from what I'm hearing. At the least, you should be able to get any base you want after a month.
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