More fun with our Attendance Management Process - a Management view of what happens to people who are sick:
"There are two ways of looking at it. The first is as you say - you should not fly with a cold. The second, is that you are paid to fly aeroplanes. If you are absent, for whatever reason, then you are not fulfilling your contract."
Into the disciplinary process you go! Catch 22 here we come!
Why all the aggression from Big Airways?
Because they KNOW that sooner or later BALPA will be forced into a strike to support a member who has been hounded-out, as the BACC Chairman has promised to do.
When the strike IS held, BINGO - NAPS, the final salary pension scheme is closed. Once the money is there to pay the obligations accrued up to date, that is what will happen. Result - no more "elephant in BA's rowing boat" (pension contributions).
Anyone who thinks the AMP is just about sickness is missing the point! WW will be keen to turn this screw even tighter, of that we can be sure, to be sure!