Originally Posted by TonyC

That seems like a fine strategy until you are in the market for post-retirement life insurance or healthcare insurance and you get to that question on the application, "How many times have you visited a doctor in the past year?" They won't care if the visits are for real health problems or for untethered Assistant Chief Pilot problems -- they just want the number, and it may affect your eligibility and/or rates.

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Originally Posted by Busboy

I can't call in sick anymore. And, I won't use any vacation my last year at FDX. I'm trying to build up my sick bank so that I can get the full "End of Career Sick Leave Buy Back" money. I'll receive that, the vacation buyback and the 12 month retirement notice bonus money.

That way, when I retire, I can delay my "Benefit Commencement Date" for almost a year. That, will increase my A-plan benefit, which will help make up for not negotiating an increase in the A-Plan in the contract. I learned all this at one of our retirement seminars. Awesome!!

Sorry, if you catch something from me.

Originally Posted by angry tanker

So, let me get this straight...the worst case is they drop the trip without pay for doing nothing??? Sounds like a win to me

Originally Posted by Zpig

From SCP's note on PFC:

A pilot will have 10 business days to provide the required documentation. If the documentation is not received by the deadline, the pilot's absence may be re-coded from SCK to DRP without pay and without makeup eligibility.

What does "without makeup eligibility" mean?

Originally Posted by TonyC

Maybe it's a win if your lender allows you to skip mortgage payments or make partial mortgage payments for the months you are sick.

What it amounts to is allowing a management pilot, not a doctor, to make a decision to deprive you of your negotiated contractual benefit to be paid on a day you are sick.

What I fear most is pilots using the third method to meet the sick note requirement, the "discussing it with the SCP designee who may conclude the sick note is no longer necessary" method. Heaven only knows what that guy's expertise in medicine and health care is, what his standards will be, whether his decisions will be fair and consistent across the board, just to name a few of the myriad of reasons why it should be a doctor, not a management pilot, making the confirmation that the pilot was sick. This SCP designee will ultimately be given the authority to determine if the pilot was fit to fly, and therefore the Sick is replaced by a Drop, or if he was NOT fit to fly, and therefore let the Sick stand. In the eyes of the FAA, this fitness determination is only to be made by the pilot himself, the guy who called in sick. Finally, the pilot pleading his case before this designated arbiter will be inclined if not pressured to reveal details about his personal health information that are presently protected by HIPAA law. We should have no procedure that puts a pilot in this position.






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Originally Posted by olly

There seem to be procedures for the company that violate HIPPA. I do not think a cba or LOA can supersede federal law, even if we gave it up/waived it in this settlement. Something for the lawyers to rule on. If one does not want to divulge their personal condition/health to a company administrator HIPPA should protect that, and FAA order 8900 states that a pilot is "solely" responsible for determining his fitness to fly.

Originally Posted by busdriver12

I think if the SCP designee wants to get into a discussion about one's illness, we should all just go into a detailed explanation of problems with our lady parts (whether we have them or not, who's to know?)

Originally Posted by Busboy

Although I am quite familiar with "lady parts"...I don't actually know the proper names for them.