Since you have seniority over these cover drivers YOU should be given the option to take off, not them, your route was cut thru no fault of your own. If they keep forcing you to work maybe you can "improve" your methods by following EDD 100% stop for stop and 100% pickup compliance, NO EXCEPTIONS. Eventually they'll get the message.
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I always thought this was the case too. That if my route was cut I was out of the equation if I chose to take the day off.
The last 3 times they have done it they have said they NEED me to work because they didn't have enough drivers. My response was ...what were you going to do if the volume called for my route to be put in?
What route I run is not a problem because they want me to run the combo route because it is made up mostly of the 2 bid routes I have run for the last 20 plus years.
To the people who have said seniority only gives you the right to work, not the right to not work I have to call BS.
Seniority allows the first choice on optional days, vacation days, opting out for the day after Christmas and Thanksgiving and many other situations. We always force from the bottom up.
I guess if management says everyone else is sick I have no choice but come in or become a liar like them.