Originally Posted by
shortshortz
sorry what am I missing, if a pilot calls in sick don’t you still get paid the daily rate of your base wage for the day? Ie if your base is $18k a month and you’re sick 3 days, you still get $18k for the month. Or are you short changed and only receive a base of $16k plus ot
What you are missing is that if 76 hours of duty is the personal leave (as it is with QF) the intent from FWA was that an 'average' day was 7.6 hours meaning that if one was ill, 7.6 hours was taken for each day the person was ill.
The Qantas interpretation is to deduct duty hours from the total. Therefore, if a duty day was 11.45 that is deducted from the 76 hours. If a pilot happened to be sick (for illustration purposes) for duty days each rostered to be 11.45, then annual personal leave is exhausted in 6.5 days.