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I worked for one airline solidly for 3 years. We had our first baby, and after birth, I had to take our daughter to the doctor urgently asmy wife was still incapable of driving, so rang in work and told them I would not be in for the day on personal grounds.
4 weeks later, I am pulled up in front of a committee and told that since I had not provided a medical certificate for that day, and that they had contacted my usual doctor who did NOT have record of me being there that I was suspended without pay until further notice (this was not an Australian company, as you may have gathered). I explained to them that, as I had told the duty officer when I called in, that it was a personal day, and I had to take my baby daughter to the paediatrician - NOT my doctor - and there was no medical certificate from me. They then went on to say that they would investigate this and that my suspension still stood.
Well, I let them have it with both barrels, reloaded, and let them have it again, and told them to shove their job up their combined orifices.
3 years perfect record, and I cannot provide a medical certificate for a designated personal day off and they do that. I was not even rostered on for a flight that day - only non-essential ground duties.
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