What are my rights if I have a on-call rotation where once a month we are on call for a week 24/7?
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What are my rights if I have a on-call rotation where once a month we are on call for a week 24/7?
Some weekends especially are so brutal I am limited severely in free time. We have a 4 hour response time to be at customer sites in a 1 1/2 radius. Last Saturday I got 8 calls I had to respond to and I was actually home 3 times for about 1/2 hour and had to leave again. Also, the company has forced us to run service calls that aren’t emergencies making nights restless and days busy. We get paid from the time we leave home till we get home and $100 for the week which is 60 cent an hour to ruin our weekends and nights. I read that it is possible due to the frequency of these calls and limitations on our free time that we may be able to get an actual hourly com
Asked on December 5, 2012 under Employment Labor Law, Florida
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SJZ, Member, New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 11 years ago | Contributor
No, it does not matter how frequent the calls are: the employer's obligation is to pay you for the travel and work time when you are on-call and are, in fact called in. If the employer is doing this, then it is honoring its obligations.
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