Take Away the on-call program? Okay, pay through the nose.
My husband was the on call person, from 5:30 pm to 6 am the next day on his days off ( Saturday, Sunday, and Monday) and 5:30 pm to 7am tues-friday.. which he gets $20 a day just to be on call. If he had to punch in to take a call out, it was normal pay.
His work started calling him on his work phone to answer " quick questions" On his days off. It got to the point where the phone was ringing 3-8 times a day. I finally said, "This is your day off. Stop answering your phone! He wasn't being paid to do this. It took a bit, but he shut his phone off until his on call hours. 670
Then they started to call his personal phone. That did it.
He told the bosses that unless he was being paid his hourly wadge, he would not answer phone calls on his off time and to stop calling his personal phone.
They got pissy and decided to stop the " on call" program.
Now, when there is an emergency, the call-out center has to call through the Seniority list to try to find someone to take the job. The problem is that only 4 people know how to fix certain issues because it's an antiquated system that is being phased out.
1st guy is just biding his time to retirement, so he doesn't take call outs. My husband is 2nd, and he passes, #3 lives 2 hours from the garage, and he's not going to drive that, #4 is also biding his time to retire.
So, back around again. Everyone passes. 3rd time, they can force the low petson to take the job, but they have to pay time and 1/2 plus night differential. oops, # 4 has had a drink. So, #3- No answer.
#2 my hubby well, he guesses he can take it 50+dollars an hour plus the 1/2 , night differential and after 50 regular hours, he auto gets time 1/2, so he gets the extra half, on top of his 1/2, with differential to equal about $ 130 + per hour.
They could have just given him $20 a day to be on call, not bothered him during the day then they would have only had to pay him normal wages.
Idiocy. 156