Hubie
Member 9.6 mile high club
- Joined
- Jul 15, 2002
- Posts
- 68
This morning our flight department lost half of our pilots to active duty for an unspecified amount of time as their units were ordered to deploy.
The parent company has known of this for some time now and unbeknownst to “most of us”, prepared to send them off. The CP and our DO approached some of us, those who would be staying and asked for our help and input on handling this situation.
Our CP, as he spoke to them last night at a nice get-together gave details to them on what management was doing for them during their call to duty.
First and obviously the company COO told them their job would be here when they returned regardless of when and more importantly they (management) believed in them, had faith in them and knew in their heart of hearts the cause was just. The company supports them 100%.
Second the families of those deploying would continue to receive full base pay, full benefits and retirement would continue to accumulate.
The company credit union would be able to offer up low and no interest loans, which could be used by the family for any reason during their absences, payment of these loans would be differed until they returned to fulltime employment here.
A group of people would be set up to offer help and to assist those families whose loved one’s were deploying. This group which includes all remaining pilots, mechanics, dispatch staff and their wives or husbands will be available for such things as help with home maintance, grass cutting or just general daily functions for example if mom is home and junior is sick we would jump in for that run to the pharmacy or to take the dog to the vet or car maintance.
In short we made it clear that these guys can go forth with the understanding that we will do everything we can to support the home front while they answer the call to duty.
We also agreed to double up our on-call time to cover the weeks that would normally have been covered by these guys. For some of us (like me) that means carrying a pager 24/7 basically from now on, a small price to pay considering what these guys will be doing.
We all look forward to their return.
The parent company has known of this for some time now and unbeknownst to “most of us”, prepared to send them off. The CP and our DO approached some of us, those who would be staying and asked for our help and input on handling this situation.
Our CP, as he spoke to them last night at a nice get-together gave details to them on what management was doing for them during their call to duty.
First and obviously the company COO told them their job would be here when they returned regardless of when and more importantly they (management) believed in them, had faith in them and knew in their heart of hearts the cause was just. The company supports them 100%.
Second the families of those deploying would continue to receive full base pay, full benefits and retirement would continue to accumulate.
The company credit union would be able to offer up low and no interest loans, which could be used by the family for any reason during their absences, payment of these loans would be differed until they returned to fulltime employment here.
A group of people would be set up to offer help and to assist those families whose loved one’s were deploying. This group which includes all remaining pilots, mechanics, dispatch staff and their wives or husbands will be available for such things as help with home maintance, grass cutting or just general daily functions for example if mom is home and junior is sick we would jump in for that run to the pharmacy or to take the dog to the vet or car maintance.
In short we made it clear that these guys can go forth with the understanding that we will do everything we can to support the home front while they answer the call to duty.
We also agreed to double up our on-call time to cover the weeks that would normally have been covered by these guys. For some of us (like me) that means carrying a pager 24/7 basically from now on, a small price to pay considering what these guys will be doing.
We all look forward to their return.
