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Phase 1 of 2017 Vacation Awards Posted on VACBID Screen
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September Incentive Pay According to Section 4.B of JCBA
Our November 16th Pay Advices have been uploaded to the Pay Advice tile of the Employee Services section of the company’s website. As this first Pay Advice that included Incentive Pay, we are beginning to receive reports from the Membership that they are not seeing the Incentive Pay on the Pay Advice or are confusing our Contractual Incentive Pay with the Non-eligible Incentive payments that are not contractual and were implemented by management as a means of engaging employees to participate in their ever changing on-time goals.
In an effort to ensure we are all on the same page with the incentive payments, Section 4.B. of our Joint Collective Bargaining Agreement (JCBA) provides “Flight Attendants will be paid [the following] incentive pay rates for all block hours flown in excess of 200 hours per calendar quarter, including vacation and deadhead…” Applying the 200 hour total on a monthly basis within the quarter, hours above 66:40 (66:40 X 3 = 200) are eligible for the incentive payment.
Starting with the following sample September 2016 pay file (DFAP), highlighted in yellow is the total number of actual block hours flown calculated as the sum of the separate actual hours flown for each ID during the schedule month.
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The following screen, which has been added as an additional component of the DFAP, lists the total of the actual hours for each month of the quarter to allow Flight Attendants to see how their actual block hours flown are being recorded. In this case, column 09 lists the total for the September schedule month and is equal to the block hours flown in the DFAP display above. The hours above the monthly 66:40 eligible to be paid at the incentive rate are calculated by subtracting 66:40 from the block hours flown. The remainder, or 19:09, are the hours & minutes eligible to be paid at the incentive rate of pay.
**** QUARTER 3 INCENTIVE PAY CALCULATIONS ****
** THE FIGURES ABOVE ARE BASED ON ITEMS THAT HAVE BEEN POSTED **
** TO DFAP. FINAL CALCULATION OF INCENTIVE PAY IS DONE AFTER **
** PAY IS CLOSED FOR THE LAST MONTH OF EACH QUARTER. **
Incentive hours are payable in the month following the last month of the applicable quarter. In this instance, September hours are payable as part of the October pay file, will be posted in the October DFAP with a XX125 Cert Code and identified as INC. These payments will be included in the mid-month paycheck in November.
Now that we’ve reviewed the payroll posting that gets the Incentive Pay into the paycheck, the next question we are receiving is, “Why don’t I see the amount of the Incentive payment posted on my Pay Advice?”
Incentive Payments are not identified on the pay advice. Instead, the amount is posted as a separate line on the Statement of Earnings. (The Incentive payment broken out on the pay advice is the on-time & customer service incentive payment that was implemented by management and is not part of our Contract.)
Phase 1 of 2017 Vacation Awards Posted on VACBID Screen
Phase 1 of the 2017 Vacation awards are posted on Unimatic. Visit VACBID to see you award. Don't forget to bid for Phase 2 and 3. Below you will find the timeline for the remaining Vacation Phases.
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Secondary Vacation Bid Period
- Begins0830 November 16
- Closes0830 November 23
- Post secondary vacation awards0830 November 28
Tertiary Vacation Bid Period
- Begins 0830 December 1
- Closes 0830 December 7
- Post tertiary vacation awards 0830 December 11
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