On Call Allowance

jebervic

I get £14.86 per shift, mon-fri attracts 1 shift per day and the weekends are 2 shifts per day = £133.74 for the week, we also get paid a minimum of two hours for anytime we need to respond, allowing hour to get to work and home, so if a call takes 2hours 15 minutes, we get paid 4 hours extra O/T.

Lakeuk

If memory serves our oncall rate was 1/3rd our hourly rate + 1.5x for hrs worked

remember that this is to compensate the employee for possible having to place restrictions to their social schedule inorder to be available

employers do tend to use things like oncall as a continuation of the working day, where as ideally they should be temporary measure by management of resources

maninthestreet

ringo_24601 wrote: »

ha, i'm a highly skilled IT consultant and we don't get paid anything extra to be on call

My employer pays £40/day for being on call for up to 12 hours at the weekend, i.e £3.50/per hour.

C_Mababejive

ringo_24601 wrote: »

ha, i'm a highly skilled IT consultant and we don't get paid anything extra to be on call

Same here..though not in IT.

Mind you,would a percentage of your calls be remote admin jobs?



As an aside...do any of you people who are on call have your on call hours classed as "working time" ?

Vader123

I don't pay any of my staff for "on call" time per incident or shift. I include a premuim in their salary which means they participate in a "rota" for on call.

If they attend I pay them their standard hourly rate, I also have to watch hours for WTD.

Vader

Ivrytwr3

PasturesNew wrote: »

Being on call can vary so much between people. I've been on call before and I couldn't even go shopping in case I was mid way through the till at Tesco when the phone rang. Even showering's not possible.

Er....why? Are you Jack Bauer or something? The world will end if you don't answer the call?

I'm Military Police and do regular on call duties. I can shower, go shopping etc...... As long as i can answer the call and if required, get to work within a set time frame, then all is good!!

As for the OP, on call is still basically at work ie you can't:

1. Drink alcohol

2. Have to be within a set distance/able to get to work within a set time if required

3. Sleep problems. I also don't sleep well, as i'm worried i may miss a call!!

So i would say the figures mentioned here are not high enough!!

PS I like the idea above, factor the on call into their wage.

Grandmasu

Thanks for all the replies, obviously a lot of different pay and conditions out there, varying hugely in money paid. I am making enquiries for a business to try and find out what would be reasonable rate. I shall now be able to put forward all these replies to the committee.

C_Mababejive

Vader123 wrote: »

I don't pay any of my staff for "on call" time per incident or shift. I include a premuim in their salary which means they participate in a "rota" for on call.

If they attend I pay them their standard hourly rate, I also have to watch hours for WTD.

Vader

Would you consider including the hours that they are on call but not called at as "working time" due to the possibility that they cannot go about their normal activities duty to the possibility of being called out?

Ivrytwr3

If asked to be on-call out-of-hours or w/e's, there are 2 ways of dealing with this:

1. If you can negotiate a multiple of your hourly rate, eg. 1.5 x £ 50 = £ 75 p/h for each call that can be dealt remotely, otherwise 1.5 x (half the daily rate) for each visit to the client (unless more than 4 hrs inc. travel, then whole day rate applies), that should cover your time and potential expenses of calls/travel.

2. If you can't, due to budget restrictions or clients unwilling to do so (as in the poster's case), then work out using the above calculations how many hours does this entitle you off and take them during the normal working week.
I don't think anyone would argue against either one. I have applied this to current project without any problems.

or check out this site:

http://www.sehd.scot.nhs.uk/pcs/PCS2008(AFC)06.pdf

jim_walton

C_Mababejive wrote: »

Same here..though not in IT.

Mind you,would a percentage of your calls be remote admin jobs?



As an aside...do any of you people who are on call have your on call hours classed as "working time" ?

Being on call is classed as working time.
reference
direct.gov.uk/en/Employment/Employees/WorkingHoursAndTimeOff/DG_10029426