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- Jan 16, 2003
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On 4/28/2003 1
45 PM AAORDPLAT wrote:
Driver- where do you draw the line on this? I mean, CO offered to put employee''s names in a drawing if they didn''t call of sick for a chance at a new Explorer. Is that considered forcing people to fly sick, penalizing someone who did get sick or offer a benefit to someone who didn''t abuse the system? I deal with admin staff in my job and, frankly, don''t want people to come in sick and risk getting others sick....BUT....there are a few that call in sick when their requested days off aren''t approved...is that what sick days are for? I mean, during the whole Reno thing, you guys were all really sick and in bed with the flu, right?
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I draw the line when the company places pressure on pilots to fly sick, which is a FAR violation, by holding a supposedly negotiated benefit hostage. As a quid for APA giving up contractual furlough protection for 2500 pilots, the company agreed to continue their travel benefits. That''s not much of a price to pay to save a few hundred million now, is it?On 4/28/2003 1
45 PM AAORDPLAT wrote: Driver- where do you draw the line on this? I mean, CO offered to put employee''s names in a drawing if they didn''t call of sick for a chance at a new Explorer. Is that considered forcing people to fly sick, penalizing someone who did get sick or offer a benefit to someone who didn''t abuse the system? I deal with admin staff in my job and, frankly, don''t want people to come in sick and risk getting others sick....BUT....there are a few that call in sick when their requested days off aren''t approved...is that what sick days are for? I mean, during the whole Reno thing, you guys were all really sick and in bed with the flu, right?
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What the company is now doing is punishing all employees for the minority that will abuse sick leave. From the guy who drags his sick butt into work to preserve his ability to commute to a new job after furlough to the crew who gets infected because they''re unwittingly stuck in a silver tube for three days with someone who should be home in bed.
The Reno affair is really irrelevant to a discussion of sick leave. That was a job action, and while I don''t agree with how it was handled by APA, it was precipitated by some underhanded actions on Mr. Carty''s part regarding the acquisition. Kind of similar in nature to what finally sunk him last week (the APA would prefer to get their info from mgmt, not the WSJ).
