United Airlines Awards 11 Vehicles to Employees With Perfect Attendance:

ATN_Pilot said:
Seems like it is to me. I can't remember a six month period while flying the line where I didn't have to miss at least one day of work due to illness or fatigue.
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My company gives a paid day off if you get 6 months straight perfect attendance, most of the time the winners don't realize they had perfect attendance for 6 months until they get the free day. And there's usually a good number of them. I've gone 1 year without getting sick, being tardy is another issue.
 
ChasenSFO said:
I don't get the whole sick time thing. I'm "out of sick time" at my company. Yet, I got sick, called in for about 2 weeks until I got better with no sick time left to use. I wasn't in trouble. Why? California state law says you can't penalize and employee when a physician says they're actually sick beyond the ability to safely preform their job functions. Sick time or not, with the proper paperwork from my doctor, they couldn't do a thing to me. And I got paid 66% of my regular pay for each day I missed. I'm sure we aren't the only state with such laws, I'd much rather take paperwork to my doctor then get my co-workers sick and make myself feel worse.
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In Florida it's unpaid once you're out of sick time.
 
For the industry that they work in it's not safe or smart to put that much encouragement on "perfect attendance". There are regulations that REQUIRE a pilot to not fly if they are ill (or have to take certain meds because of illness) and I think they are the same for FA. To say, "well, not everyone flies on the plane" is kind of silly as it's a company wide incentive and why should the pilots and FA be penalized because their job requires them to be more cautious about working sick (plus who wants to check into the airport with a sick person helping you or have a sick person handle your luggage that then later gets you sick). They should exclude any days that include a doctor's note if they want to make it slightly more fair.

As for running out of days encouraging people to go in sick, it does. I took no days last year until after I delivered because I had to save everything for the maternity leave I would need (because it's 100% unpaid if you don't have sick time to cover it) so ended up having to go in a couple of days I probably shouldn't have. I also went back before the doctor recommended I do medically because I needed the days. (And I was still marked down on my evaluation for taking 15 days (3 weeks total!) that were all medically necessary and even less than my doctor recommended with doctor's notes if they wanted.)
 
Oh, and interestingly enough, I've only been sick one day since April 2011. I've had to call in sick two other days due to a sick wife (we can call in for sick family). When I was flying, I was sick at least two or three times a year. Typically with a bad sinus infection or cold.

Makes little sense to me, because I regularly deal with nasty ass people, and am exposed to sick people in our hospital all the time. Hmm maybe because people came to work sick and left their germs all over the cockpit?
 
Also remember its for the whole company, not just flight crews. Rampers come to work sick all the time, but I'm fairly certain I've never gotten sick due to a ramper I was working with sneezing and coughing. Customer Service, on the other hand, coworkers did get me sick a few times. It varies.
 
FlyChicaga said:
Makes little sense to me, because I regularly deal with nasty ass people, and am exposed to sick people in our hospital all the time. Hmm maybe because people came to work sick and left their germs all over the cockpit?
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Some planes are absolutely disgusting.

Now if the offices at HQ were as dirty as some of our cockpits are, there would be a corporate-wide safety shut-down in order to rectify the problem.

Seven years ago, on the Mad Dog, I literally found a mummified chicken wing and a receipt.... For "Mo' Better Chicken". And how long has that joint been out of the B-Terminal in ATL?
 
FlyChicaga said:
Oh, and interestingly enough, I've only been sick one day since April 2011. I've had to call in sick two other days due to a sick wife (we can call in for sick family). When I was flying, I was sick at least two or three times a year. Typically with a bad sinus infection or cold.

Makes little sense to me, because I regularly deal with nasty ass people, and am exposed to sick people in our hospital all the time. Hmm maybe because people came to work sick and left their germs all over the cockpit?
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The first year or two of teaching most teachers get sick ALL the time. After a couple of years you build up immunity to whatever crap the kids have and don't get sick very often. Maybe you've just built that up by now.
 
FlyChicaga said:
Oh, and interestingly enough, I've only been sick one day since April 2011. I've had to call in sick two other days due to a sick wife (we can call in for sick family). When I was flying, I was sick at least two or three times a year. Typically with a bad sinus infection or cold.

Makes little sense to me, because I regularly deal with nasty ass people, and am exposed to sick people in our hospital all the time. Hmm maybe because people came to work sick and left their germs all over the cockpit?
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And while I'm not familiar with your professions views on coming to work sick, our level of sick that knocks us out of the game is a lot lower. I just burnt through most of my sick time a few weeks ago because my sinuses were acting up. On the ground I felt absolutely 100% fine, but as soon as the pressure started changing I was useless. Most other people when they have a cold or allergies can pop a pill and go to work, we are very limited on what we are allowed to take and still report to work.
 
I carry an array of weapons on my person every day. It's not like I can come to work under the weather... But your typical congestion due to allergies or a cold doesn't sideline us.
 
HRDiva said:
You don't have STD? I thought all teachers had that in their contracts?
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No, we can buy disability, but for maternity it has to be quite awhile before you are pregnant to get anything and it's not cheap, so probably not worth it in the long run. We get 10 days of sick/ personal leave a year (if you work all 10 months) and can bank them. I had quite a few left that were banked from previous years, so that helps. I think I have 10 days now and we get 1 per month added on.
 
amjon said:
No, we can buy disability, but for maternity it has to be quite awhile before you are pregnant to get anything and it's not cheap, so probably not worth it in the long run. We get 10 days of sick/ personal leave a year (if you work all 10 months) and can bank them. I had quite a few left that were banked from previous years, so that helps. I think I have 10 days now and we get 1 per month added on.
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12 month per-ex is standard. But if you get pregnant after the effective date, it would be covered. They can't treat pregnancy different than any other condition that occurs after the effective date. You can thank those of us that rose up after the 9 dudes on the Supreme Court said in 1976 that it was legal to do that. So we got the Pregnancy Discrimination Act passed into law in 1978. You're welcome! :)
 
HRDiva said:
12 month per-ex is standard. But if you get pregnant after the effective date, it would be covered. They can't treat pregnancy different than any other condition that occurs after the effective date. You can thank those of us that rose up after the 9 dudes on the Supreme Court said in 1976 that it was legal to do that. So we got the Pregnancy Discrimination Act passed into law in 1978. You're welcome! :)
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Yeah, but I couldn't get it last year because I was already pregnant and will hopefully be again before the beginning of the year, so I'm out for next year too.
 
amjon said:
Yeah, but I couldn't get it last year because I was already pregnant and will hopefully be again before the beginning of the year, so I'm out for next year too.
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Um ok. But you won't get fired for getting pregnant.
 
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