Calling In Sick?

[4merresrat]

Excuse me! So everyone, all employees should walk the straight and narrow while management steals our work and does everything Glass and team can come up with to make live miserable. You are dreaming, wake up. You better call off sick and see your doctor to get that fixed.

Oh, so Cav, let me get this straight. . . since you believe management is "stealing" from you, it gives yourself and the employee group the right to "steal" from the company by calling in sick when you are not sick. This is why there is most likely no hope for U. The sick culture of this company.

 

[cavalier]

Oh, so Cav, let me get this straight. . . since you believe management is "stealing" from you, it gives yourself and the employee group the right to "steal" from the company by calling in sick when you are not sick. This is why there is most likely no hope for U. The sick culture of this company.

Please show me your moral police badge.

We have CEO's coming on board every other year getting very rich and then leaving while we are being sacrificed a little at a time. It is making people truly sick, and if it doesn't then that means they are in need of mental help because their normal human response systems have failed.

Then we have clowns the likes of you sticking out your chest proclaiming how much virtue you have and we all are the devil's advocate.

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[EyeInTheSky]

This whole sick thing is wrong. If you're truly sick, you shouldn't have a problem. Problem is, those that have abused it (and you know who you are) have ruined it for those that rarely use it. So, now everybody is subject to management's FBI-like review. It's been my experience if you treat adults like renegade teenagers there's gonna be a rebellion. This is obviously what's going on now.

 

[JS]

US Airways should move to one of the following two sick policies:

1) Call in sick and don't get paid.

2) Paid Time Off (PTO), where a sick day is the same as a vacation day. Increase vacation days to reflect the fact that it is a combination of the old separate sick and vacation pay.

In either case, abuse of the policy (e.g., calling in sick the three days around every holiday) should result in termination, as this disrupts the ability of the company to do business during peak travel times.

I realize implementing either one requires a change in labor contracts, but I thought I would toss these out as possibilities. The current policy requires more enforcement because there is no disincentive for employees to abuse it.

 

[sentrido]

For what its worth, The last 2 companies I worked at dont have sick time. You get x number of days off and you can use them however you want. If you go over you just dont get paid.

 

[Smartest Loser]

In the past, the max amount of sick leave you could earn was 1500 hours. Senior mechanics with more than 1500 hours of sick leave on the books kept getting the extra day a month to be used towards their retirement. So, I personally know mechanics with 1800-1900 hours technically on the books...!! These folks are your "never called in sick group", most loyal employees.

Not anymore.....Someone has decided that those extra hours need to go back to the company. These changes were not discussed, affected employees were not told and the time was removed from their bank.

You have this amount...No wait, this amount...Ops sorry, this amount.

SL

 

[openview]

Sick time use has been abusive at US and now the bill is coming due so to speak. Thousands perpetually hover year after year one call short of the dependability trigger playing the system. F/a's taking the vol fur and calling off their last several trips even though they're going to be off for the next year or two. Only picking up high-time four days trips that they are coincidently sick for. When you have language in your contract that allows this, employees will take advantage of it. And when you fight or resist changing it, you pay for it in other way such as less pay or paycuts, outsourcing, jobs cuts, benefit cuts in other areas, when the company is losing money.

 

[BillLumbergh]

The personal attacks here need to stop.

 

[to much time to quit]

Sick time use has been abusive at US and now the bill is coming due so to speak. And when you fight or resist changing it, you pay for it in other way such as less pay or paycuts, outsourcing, jobs cuts, benefit cuts in other areas, when the company is losing money.

Now I get it. Since some of my coworkers took more sick time than they should the company is punishing all of us by contracting out the airbus work illegally. And all this time I thought they just didn't want maintenance anymore. I thought they were farming out the airbus because they would do less required work for a cheaper price. For you people who don't understand, Its like don't inspect over there we might find something that will be real expensive to fix. 3rd party in Ala at its best, with very few FAA certified mechanics.

 

[ITRADE]

If they are calling the Mechanic and Related people at home then those employees are to be paid 4 hours pay at time and a half per the contract for each call they receive.

Perhaps the statement that "a firm hired by U" gets around this provision.

 

[700UW]

No one from the company or its representatives can call you without the pay issue.

 

[ITRADE]

No one from the company or its representatives can call you without the pay issue.

There goes that theory.

Thanks.

 

[700UW]

In my 15 years I have only had one incident of being called at home by the company on a sick call, and I did not ask for the pay.

I have not heard of anyone at my station being contacted by this group.

 

[openview]

If they are calling the Mechanic and Related people at home then those employees are to be paid 4 hours pay at time and a half per the contract for each call they receive.

Hmm. 4.5 hours pay for the burdon to receive a phone call from the company you work for. There's reasonable and productive contract language for ya. Is that high on the list of terms to fight for? Solidarity now brother.

 

[ITRADE]

And the company has financial problems because
of "union contract clauses" such as this. Thanks for
sharing the absolute absurdity of the contract
language that has put US Airways in their current
position.

Actually, in defense of that policy (sort of), my firm has a policy for support staff that if they're asked to come in on the weekends or have to do some type of work at home (word processing, etc.) and it takes less than 4 hours to do, the support staffer is entitled to four hours pay.

And, interestingly, my company is union free.