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  • getmore4less
    getmore4less Posts: 46,882 Forumite
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    Mista_C wrote: »
    I think that depends on the contract/on-call agreement.

    When on-call I was expected to respond via remote access within 2 minutes and/or be able to get on-site within 30 minutes. I couldn't take a bank holiday break in Cornwall, for instance, in case I was needed on-site therefore I was reimbursed for the entire day, calls or not.

    what if you lived more than 30mins away?
  • getmore4less
    getmore4less Posts: 46,882 Forumite
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    edited 1 June 2012 at 2:17PM
    Has statutory requirement changed recently then? So far as I know it is a total of 20 days including bank holidays - not 20 + bank holidays.

    not recently,

    4.8 weeks Oct 2007 (24 days)
    5.6 weeks April 2009 (28 days)
  • Mista_C
    Mista_C Posts: 2,202 Forumite
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    what if you lived more than 30mins away?

    I guess you didn't go on the rota, I don't rightly know as it goes. There were only 2 people in the department who lived outside of 30 minutes and they were on a different team so on-call wasn't an option for them anyway.

    Presumably, if you knew you couldn't get there in 30 minutes you didn't sign the on-call agreement.
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