kellwolf
Piece of Trash
To follow up with you on the new language as I posted before it's after 14 days of sick in a rolling 365 period you require a doctor's note with explaining the reason you are sick and when you can come back to work.
Also on a rolling 365 period if you are sick 24 or more days the Director of Health Services will ask for the pilot to submit additional verification which is acceptable to DHS. If not then they will will require a medical release from the pilot which is a written authorization for the release of medical information to the DHS for which the pilot claimed sick, and days the pilot used sick leave and the consecutive days off immediately preceding and succeeding the days on which sick leave was claimed. If the release of info is still not acceptable it is expanded to include Company Doctor and VP or Ops.
If you are sick 53 days or more in a rolling 3 year period then the Medical Release clause also triggers.
There also are now restrictions in picking up trips after sick calls on your days off. Any part of a trip attempted to be picked up on your day off will be tested against FAR limits. If you weren't legal to pick up the trip if you had flown the trip you called in sick for then the pick up request will be denied. For example it's legal to call in sick for a 4 day trip then call in well on your day off and pick up a 5 day Greenslip and end up with 70+ hours of pay for only working 5 days. TA2015 restricts that.
Okay, so this is about the same as what was added for us, minus ours triggers an "evaluation" from the CP's office rather than a doctor's note. We also don't have all that language about DHS, written authorization and other things. A nasty cold can take someone down for a 4 day trip easily. Do that 4 times in a rolling 365 days, and you're over the 14 day limit. Notice it's DAYS not OCCURRENCES. So, this kinda hurts guys that normally bid longer trips for commutability compared to guys that fly day trips.
I'd expect all the people that slammed jetBlue's new sick policy (ie the fact that one exists now) to be all over this one as well. Also, the note explaining "why you were sick" technically may be a violation of the law. That's doctor-patient confidentiality. All the company needs to know is I was sick and the doctor treated me and thinks I'm ready to return now. The "how" and "why" is between the person, their doctor and POSSIBLY their FAA medical examiner.