I spoke to a lady named Kay from the Fort & she told me my Tm has to put sick days in, maybe things changed. He also put a vacation day I forgot to put in….
I tried entering some sick days for this next week and the drop box did not have “sick days” as an option. I too had to get our Operations Manager to enter them for me when I got to work.
To say the least, they just fired a newer guy for taking a day off. The Tm told him not to do it or he better have a doctors note ( for 1 day?) Their was no progression leading up to this. A wrongful termination grievance was filed by our B.a.
Now were even more short handed and the guy is going to get a paid Christmas vacation....can't make this up.
When you go to workday it ask you to put in the amount of hours you are requesting. A vacation day is a total of 9 hours, a sick day is 8 hours. If you put in 8 hours it gives you a sick day off. It you put in 9 hours it will give you a vacation day off. Hope this helps you.
Had a co-worker that mistakenly put in 8 hours for a single day vacation like you were saying, and never got approved for it thru workday. It did not change it to a sick day either. Below is the options the drop box gave me yesterday when I tried to enter my remaining sick days for next week.
I have seen several lower & middle level management types get an education about kicking around employees & ignoring the contract. You cannot reason with those with that attitude. You get their attention & respect by collecting back pay. Upper level management notices payments made for grievances. I remember a certain terminal manager who did not get a regional job because of a large sum paid to multiple employees when he tried to rewrite the contract & ignored advice from the local.
Sad part is labor man & the Fort gave the green light on this….Reason given “job abandonment”
I remember that event well. Right before Christmas of 1997 I believe. That one grievance ended up costing the company over $250,000 for all of us here at 004. If I remember correctly, I ended up getting close to $1200 back pay on that one myself. That one grievance was important enough to warrant two full pages in “The Southern Region Book of Interpretations” (page 72-73). Thank you for your generous donations Mike!!!
The BA told him he was bleeding & that he could abide by the contract to lessen the impact from his mistake.
I also heard that Gordon R. (Industrial Relations) blew his top when the decision on that one was announced at the grievance hearings. Believe it or not Gordon ended up being the one that helped put the CDL qualifying grievance we filed in 2014 over the top in our favor. When our BA thanked him for his honesty, he asked him why he did it. His response was, “I may be an SOB, but I am not a lying SOB”.
Total BS and easily beatable with a decent BA. Not one of the stipulated contractual reasons for immediate dismissal. Neither is the totally BS "voluntary quit" which is sometimes tried by the company.
Homesick, my apologizes. Vacation in the Road supplement is Article 55. It is Article 52 in the city/dock supplement. The two week thing is not mentioned in the road side either. Therefore, I would still grieve it if they deny you putting in a request for vacation outside of their 2-week window.
He tried to give them a heads up. Hopefully he learned his lesson & give them a two hour call. Let me say the guy has burnt a lot of bridges with management & even a lot of his fell teamsters, but with no progression is crazy that they went this route….
That is what we get also. I tried to upload that picture and a picture of the employee discussion report you get when you have sick days, and you call off sick, but don't request pay for the sick day. But my phone won't let me post pictures now. Before workday 086 had to turn in a pay log with "8 hours sick pay" written on it.Had a co-worker that mistakenly put in 8 hours for a single day vacation like you were saying, and never got approved for it thru workday. It did not change it to a sick day either. Below is the options the drop box gave me yesterday when I tried to enter my remaining sick days for next week.
