Changes to Night Differential
Due to the FAA needing to have someone recallable on our 3 shift starts times (0600, 1400, 2200). Our WX shifts and RDOs will be changing in web schedule. Your actual WX shift assignment will either be in the shift notes, remarks, or if you click on a “WX” under the schedule view, it should show the shift history/assignment for recall purposes. This generally won’t effect how we operate with 5 and 5 per say, but you will see more or less night differential depending on what WX shifts you have that pay period for recall purposes. We’ll make every effort to balance this out every few pay periods to equitably distribute the night differential as much as possible.
Changes to Canceling Bid Leave
Previously we have been reaching out to everyone with bid leave to see if they still want it before publishing. Under this it was either “approved” or “denied.” This was done to get everyone as much EA as possible since after publication (even if someone turned in leave) there is no re assignment of EA.
Moving forward all bid leave will either be approved per the contract or canceled at the employee’s request. This includes leave you have on “5 off days.” Meaning, if you don’t want to be charged leave on your “5 off days” you will have to cancel it. We’re no longer able to “deny” it like it has been to keep the order of request correct in web schedule.
We still have an agreement in place that when we go back to 5 and 2 the bid books come back and previous bid leave will be honored if you canceled it under 5 and 5.
To be clear, we’ll still reach out to everyone if they want their bid leave but it will either be approved or canceled in web schedule and this will look different than before.
We’re still working on beginning of dayshift EA and additional EA days on slower shifts as we get into fall/winter traffic. Expect more to follow on this once we get additional guidance.
If there are questions please feel free to call anytime.
James Darlington
NATCA C Area Rep
904-347-3065