Holiday Pay should be offered

[nostradamus]

In order to have a more orderly holiday, a few hours added to the pay of workers would release the pressure on staffing levels that occur this time of year. Adding this extra pay for December 24 and 25th would insure a smooth schedule.

You can be a moralist or a realist . With a holiday pay program, you can lay claim to both descriptions.

 

[USCREW]

F/As have holiday pay. Doesn't seem to help a bit. As a matter-of-fact, F/As are offering up to $100 dollars on ETB to GIVE-UP their trips!!!!

 

[JAXPax]

My company offers hourly employees holiday pay... all hours worked on the holiday are time and a half (plus there is a differential for Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve). You get an additional 8 hours of pay at straight pay rate for the holiday (whether you work your scheduled shift or are scheduled off) provided you work your entire scheduled shift BEFORE and AFTER the holiday.

Gives people some incentive to show up not only on the higher paying day, but to get that double time and a half, have to have good attendance for the days around the holiday as well.

 

[Twicebaked]

F/As have holiday pay. Doesn't seem to help a bit. As a matter-of-fact, F/As are offering up to $100 dollars on ETB to GIVE-UP their trips!!!!

Well, I wouldn't call that "pay". It equals out to be a only a few bucks. As far as ETB..how much you want to be that all of those trips end up open as the B/Hs will call in sick and screw the few reserves that do have off Christmas.

 

[pilot]

Well, I wouldn't call that "pay". It equals out to be a only a few bucks. As far as ETB..how much you want to be that all of those trips end up open as the B/Hs will call in sick and screw the few reserves that do have off Christmas.

If the blockholders call in sick and "screw" the reserves, why would the reserves not call in sick too?

You don't have to work Christmas if you don't want to work Christmas. It doesn't matter if your a blockholder or not.

 

[Twicebaked]

Gives people some incentive to show up not only on the higher paying day, but to get that double time and a half, have to have good attendance for the days around the holiday as well.

Here is a great incentive......show up and keep your job!!

I am all for extra money on a holiday, but the airline business is a 24/7 365 day a year operation.

When I took this job, I knew it would require weekends, holidays, and long days. This is a fact for ALL departments with the exception of upper management. Although they should work out on the line that day.
Anyway, if you want extra pay for holidays.....punishments for cronic sick calls on Christmas should be harsher.

You should not have to be bribed to come to work.

 

[USCREW]

B/Hs will call in sick and screw the few reserves that do have off Christmas.

I'm sure it's not meant to "screw the few reserves", but my friends who hold the bottom lines in PIT with a DOH of 1981...may feel that they've put in enough time here to deserve the holiday off.

 

[Twicebaked]

If the blockholders call in sick and "screw" the reserves, why would the reserves not call in sick too?

y should I have to pull the sick card when I am scheduled off in the first place? Reserves end up getting assigned through off days because the block holders call in sick. I know reserves are there for that purpose, but holidays are abused

You don't have to work Christmas if you don't want to work Christmas. It doesn't matter if your a blockholder or not.

Why the hell not? It is YOUR job to work if you are scheduled to work.

You are correct, you don't have to..but you don't have a job to come back to either.

If it were up to me (thank God it's not), if you called in Christmas and have done it for the last 2 or more years, YOU ARE GONE!! Unless you can prove you were really sick. For F/As..if you have a trip on the ETB to be picked up and you call in sick because the trip was never picked up...YOU ARE GONE!!!!!

 

[USCREW]

Here is a great incentive......show up and keep your job!!

When I took this job, I knew it would require weekends, holidays, and long days.

For how many years? Thirty? Let me guess...You have less than 25 right?

 

[Twicebaked]

I'm sure it's not meant to "screw the few reserves", but my friends who hold the bottom lines in PIT with a DOH of 1981...may feel that they've put in enough time here to deserve the holiday off.

I totally understand, but...they have choices.

They can get a new job where they can go forward not backwards or transfer to a base (any at this point) where they can hold a block. Yes, I know bases are closed right now

 

[USCREW]

.....punishments for cronic sick calls on Christmas should be harsher.

Like what, termination? What about legitimate doctor's notes?

 

[Twicebaked]

For how many years? Thirty? Let me guess...You have less than 25 right?

You are correct...less than 25

Although it seems unfair to have to work holidays after so many years, our company specifically went backwards. I don't have the right, nor does anyone else, to decide that I have put enough time in and call of sick. Again, I KNEW the job required holidays. Is it fair? No, but IT IS THE JOB.

 

[USCREW]

For F/As..if you have a trip on the ETB to be picked up and you call in sick because the trip was never picked up...YOU ARE GONE!!!!!

Just because an F/A puts a trip on the ETB board does not mean that he/she is immune to possible diseases and injuries whether it's a holiday or not.

 

[Twicebaked]

Like what, termination? What about legitimate doctor's notes?

Hey, if you can prove that you get "sick" every year at Christmas...good for you!

8-5 2. of the contract:

Notwithstand the above, the company may require a physician's written confirmation of illness or injury or make personal inquiries of the type or nature of such illness or injury when a supervisor can demonstrate he/she has resasonable cause to believe that an individual flight attendant's use of sick leave may have been for other than legitimate reasons.

i.e You've called of sick every Christmas and/or you've posted a trip to be picked up and it wasn't, therefore giving you the "right" to call in sick.

 

[USCREW]

Notwithstand the above, the company may require a physician's written confirmation of illness or injury or make personal inquiries of the type or nature of such illness or injury when a supervisor can demonstrate he/she has resasonable cause to believe that an individual flight attendant's use of sick leave may have been for other than legitimate reasons.

i.e You've called of sick every Christmas and/or you've posted a trip to be picked up and it wasn't, therefore giving you the "right" to call in sick.

First of all, we've only had the ETB for a short while; two X-mases I believe. Secondly, of course you can get a note if you have an illness/injury...it does not matter what "reasonable cause" the company may have!