Spirit “Forgot” to pay new per diem rates
 

Is that a joke? They didn’t forget. It was deliberate! They don’t pay until someone notices. Same thing they did with our health insurance for which they still have our two years of over payments. They purposely don’t pay our hotels. They deny contractually obligated rigs. It’s how they do business. They didn’t forget!

Agreed, it's pathetic and getting really old.

What ever happened with the overpayments? Did they ever make the employees whole?

This is unfortunately how this place is run. I have no idea why so many people drink the cool-aid here.

I think that total I was shorted was like $3.00. So they probably saved $6k with this oversight. Which is to say that the panties in a wad over this is probably not called for. It’s far more likely that someone dropped that extra penny or whatever it is when entering data than some nefarious plane to save $6k. Or $10k if it’s 2 pennies.

This place nets about $1M a day. Put it in perspective.

No not yet. I have not seen the payment.

It is not necessary to ascribe to malice that which can be explained satisfactorily by incompetence or stupidity.

:D

And we're going to do what about it?

"Positive rate, gear up" is my guess!

It’s the principal. It took us 6 weeks to notice. What if it had taken two years. They do it as long as they can get away with. I’ve had hotels literally tell me they won’t give me a room on short notice because spirit doesn’t pay the bills. We had to do a union audit of the healthcare to find out we were paying 7% increases when the cost of the plans werent going up 7% or more. Yet the company took our money and have corrected the mistake on our last pay check but still have our two years of overpayments. And they would’ve kept our money if we weren’t unionized and able to do our own audit. This per diem thing is no mistake.

Why don’t they want to go to expedited arbitration on this pbs issue? We can lose or gain just the same is them. The answer: they just don’t want to pay the rigs the agreed to so they want to stall and keep our money as long as possible with no consequence. But hey all the station managers got to rah rah at the C-suite dressing up as funny characters and dance on stage. “Culture”

You’re right. And one of the reasons the RLA favors the company. We could grieve it if they chose not to pay and when they were forced to pay we would’ve been whole and there would be no consequence to the company.

I don’t pretend to think that other airline managements love their pilots but this management is something else in the lengths they go to save money on an already bottom CBA that affords them an industry leading cost advantage. It’s just disrespect.