PDT Attendance Policy Gone

[OPECJet]

For those of you who haven't heard, the attendance policy is out the window at PDT.

The controlling document regulating sick calls and sick leave will be the contract.

What is important to realize, is that a late show is no longer an occurence. If you are going to be late, notify crew scheduling. Keep in mind you may be subject to discipline if your flight leaves late due to tardiness, but otherwise it shouldn't be too big of a deal if you aren't habitually late.

ALSO, if one of your crewmembers is not present within 5 minutes of report you are STILL responsible for calling crew scheduling.

 

[LowlyPropCapt]

For those of you who haven't heard, the attendance policy is out the window at PDT.

The controlling document regulating sick calls and sick leave will be the contract.

What is important to realize, is that a late show is no longer an occurence. If you are going to be late, notify crew scheduling. Keep in mind you may be subject to discipline if your flight leaves late due to tardiness, but otherwise it shouldn't be too big of a deal if you aren't habitually late.

ALSO, if one of your crewmembers is not present within 5 minutes of report you are STILL responsible for calling crew scheduling.

Good news all around, I suspect.

I would be curious to know what the "behind the scenes" info is on exactly why management decided to recind the policy. Although we have fought it from day one, they seemed to defend it with equal ferver. There must be a good story there someplace...

Or perhaps they realized that people were calling in sick, then staying out more days than necessary just because it wouldn't cost them an additional occurance?

 

[DiverDriver]

Yah, how did you guys get rid of it? We at Air Willy would love to know. FAA involvement? If you're sick you're not legal to fly?

 

[OPECJet]

I think you hit the nail on the head, Cap.

 

[trainer8]

Good news all around, I suspect.

I would be curious to know what the "behind the scenes" info is on exactly why management decided to recind the policy. Although we have fought it from day one, they seemed to defend it with equal ferver. There must be a good story there someplace...

Or perhaps they realized that people were calling in sick, then staying out more days than necessary just because it wouldn't cost them an additional occurance?

I would suspect two sources. MJS, former ALG CP, DO, former MDA DO, and now at PDT. And, influence of the former ALG ALPA leadership who targeted the policy in summer of 2004 at the completion of the ALG/PDY merger in conjuction with their PDT counterparts. When I spoke with MJS just after his appointment to PDT he mentioned it was a item that would be talked about.

Definitely a positive move on PDT's management.

T8

 

[skychicken]

I would get writtne varification before testing the waters! J.B. was in LGA earlier this week and as he understood there was no penalty for being late to sign in as long as the flight goes out on time, but if the flight goes late you are to blame.
As far as sick calls go th eoccurance policy is there. Does anybody have anything in writing to show otherwise??

 

[JohnnyP]

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Thats the sorry part, is that no one will really know what the entire, true story is going to be on what the hell is going on as far as the "new" occurence, sick policy.. It'll all be just seven different stories about what the truth is from seven different people. I imagine some people will end up screwing up to find out what the deal is, and even then still wont know.

 

[OPECJet]

The union guy that was there is going to get written verification from another mgm't source Monday.

As far as we know, the whole enchilada is gone. It sounds like a failure to communicate in SBY, and we're going to make sure ASAP.

The memo the union got from MJS said the whole thing was gone.

 

[Booker]

So are they going to revert back to the 10 days/year limit? Even though I don't work there anymore, I'm still glad to see the policy go. When I resigned, I had 55 hours in my sick bank, but I also had a nastygram because of three sick calls (covering 9 days of work total). I'm sorry, but I still have trouble reconciling that duplicity.