Holiday Pay
 

This may be a dumb question... My husband is a new hire (april) and I was looking at his pay registers and was wondering if he gets paid for the major holidays...July 4, Labor Day etc. He is on reserve and having the extra pay would be nice but I don't see that shown anywhere. Does anyone have some insight on that? Thanks!!

Holiday Pay
 

What airline?

I don't know of any instance where any airline has ever paid "holiday pay."

If they would, then senior pilots would bid to work on the holidays. Your husband still wouldn't make any extra money but at least he would be home. And if the senior pilots don't bid the flying, then your husband would make the extra money. What I call a win / win.

Personally, I would favor such an arrangement.

We had in at a regional I used to work for called Chautauqua, but not at Continental or the new United. No add pay or anything extra. Save your sick calls appropriately

United now......Well I guess the regional my husband worked for before was unusual because he got paid a certain amount (4+ hrs) for the major holidays whether or not he worked on them. I thought most businesses had paid holidays...did not know it wasn't the case most of the time in the airline industry.

What happens if you call in sick on a holiday? I would think that that would happen frequently if there wasn't some kind of "policy" against it.

Honestly at Unical it's a solid insurance policy to get a doc note if you call in sick on a holiday esp if your hubby is on probation. Seems stupid, but 20 buck copay to shut up the Assistant Chief Pilot phone call is well worth it.

Simply put, we don't and should not call in sick on a holiday unless you are sick. You are screwing a reserve and fellow pilot for your benefit. If you are not senior enough to get it off, fly it.

Where I worked before UAL we would get 150% pay for the flight hours on holidays, but I believe there were only a few. Christmas, thanksgiving, New Years but not sure about any others. Don't know the policy here at United

Holiday and Birthday pay is mostly a Flight Attendant thing. It keeps the senior Cat Ranchers from calling in sick. :)

Like ST said, if you're JR, suck it up and work, unless you are really sick. If you want Holidays off don't bid to a higher category that puts you on reserve. Read section 3 of the UPA. It's all in there. Cheers