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Employees with "comprehensive leave" policies i.e. paid time off is sick and personal time off rolled together. Many choose to come to work sick to avoid losing paid time off. My wife has a couple of those inconsiderate types working in her small police/fire/EMS dispatch office. The two most inconsiderate have enjoyed lengthy vacations, then came back to work sick. They refused unpaid time off due to sickness because they had burned all of their leave hours.

Taking down a dispatch office with COVID is bad news. It takes 15 weeks to train a replacement after weeks of recruiting to find an applicant capable of finishing the training.

Clearly having a pilot with the same attitude carries an even higher risk with a crash. The problem is broader than airlines or dispatch. Consider the consequences of an 18 wheeler driven by an impaired driver.