Has the FCI been re-issued yet? Is the relevant sentence still part of it?
Whiteknight, maybe we're talking about different concepts here. I'm not referring to you being called on the phone whilst on XX days and asked to operate a flight on a day off to which you, me or anyone else would naturally say NO.
It's the concept of you having more than minimum days off in a month and crewing replacing one of them LATER IN THE MONTH with a duty which you discover the next time you log into the portal. As you know, when you log in, you are "forced" to acknowledge the change.
This already happens with, for example, equipment substitution or any day of a reserve roster. The SAME process will be used to grab your day off.
When done this way, it is not a request. Congratulations, you have just given up a day off.
For the chest-beaters above, if you are in the middle of a group of days off, those days will be safe since you do not need to log in. They won't even bother trying. But you cannot protect those XX days if there's a duty between now and when they start later in the month. You're required to check for changes before any duty. This is when they will "get" you. Do you follow this?
Now, as was pointed out on Pg1 of this thread, the FCI in question was withdrawn, but as TCED said, this is because the value of the callout pay was incorrect. Has the FCI has been re-issued yet? There's little doubt it will be and that the sentence about the company reserving the right to use a pilot on a day previously shown as XX will still be there. It'd be nice to be proven wrong though.