My partner has to be “on-call” for a week every few weeks for his role at NR.
He does not get paid for being on-call. He also does not get the time in lieu, unless he gets called in the middle of the night on a work night where then he is allowed to start work slightly later the following day due to their working hours policy.
This week he started on call on Friday at 4pm and will be on until the coming Friday 8am.
So far he was called at 11pm Friday evening and working until 3am, and Saturday at 4am working until 5:30am, and also has to check alerts each morning on a Saturday and Sunday, and has to join an hour conference call at 9:30am.
This is very disruptive to our family, and I understand it’s part of his role, but surely he should be compensated for this? Even just for the hours that he works at a bare minimum.
We cannot make plans, he cannot consume even one alcoholic drink, he has to check his phone repeatedly, as there is ongoing works he needs to make sure he keep track of. Again, all fine and understandable, but I don’t understand why they can’t even take the time in lieu!
And to top it all off, he is not on call for just the area he normally covers during work hours, he is on call for the whole of eastern, which is massive!! There are certain projects and works going on and he has no idea the context and background to make quite large decisions because it’s not his usual patch. So it’s quite a lot of responsibility as he has to make big decisions which impact the railway.
He used to do another role on the same pay band and didn’t have to do on call, now his role is much more complex and technical, and it seems a bit unfair.
Can anyone confirm whether certain pay bands are entitled to on call payment?
Just wanted to know if it was his department, or just NR in general? I cannot find any policy on it and just wanted to know if anyone had any information on it at all.
Thanks for your help.
He does not get paid for being on-call. He also does not get the time in lieu, unless he gets called in the middle of the night on a work night where then he is allowed to start work slightly later the following day due to their working hours policy.
This week he started on call on Friday at 4pm and will be on until the coming Friday 8am.
So far he was called at 11pm Friday evening and working until 3am, and Saturday at 4am working until 5:30am, and also has to check alerts each morning on a Saturday and Sunday, and has to join an hour conference call at 9:30am.
This is very disruptive to our family, and I understand it’s part of his role, but surely he should be compensated for this? Even just for the hours that he works at a bare minimum.
We cannot make plans, he cannot consume even one alcoholic drink, he has to check his phone repeatedly, as there is ongoing works he needs to make sure he keep track of. Again, all fine and understandable, but I don’t understand why they can’t even take the time in lieu!
And to top it all off, he is not on call for just the area he normally covers during work hours, he is on call for the whole of eastern, which is massive!! There are certain projects and works going on and he has no idea the context and background to make quite large decisions because it’s not his usual patch. So it’s quite a lot of responsibility as he has to make big decisions which impact the railway.
He used to do another role on the same pay band and didn’t have to do on call, now his role is much more complex and technical, and it seems a bit unfair.
Can anyone confirm whether certain pay bands are entitled to on call payment?
Just wanted to know if it was his department, or just NR in general? I cannot find any policy on it and just wanted to know if anyone had any information on it at all.
Thanks for your help.