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That is just wrong to expect someone to work 24hrs and not compensate them for all of their time. Regardless if you're on calls or sleeping shouldn't matter. Its the level of preparedness that should be compensated.
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Spot on, well spoken.That is just wrong to expect someone to work 24hrs and not compensate them for all of their time. Regardless if you're on calls or sleeping shouldn't matter. Its the level of preparedness that should be compensated.
I can't have a beer at the station, therefore I will be paid.
Kinda how our DRT/ERT is. You are on call for the whole month. You get a call and you have to be at the station with all your gear in 90 minutes. Can't really leave town. Can't drink. Have to have your 72 hour go bag all ready.
Yep. I remember having to make daily phone calls to Colorado NatCom to give them status updates.Ours is a little different since the team is made up of most if not all the Colorado operations as well as one in Wyoming. Our op is the coordinator and will request other divisions to try and get like 6-8 people at a time if I remember.
I work 48/96 for a private ambulance service and we only get 16 hours a day and then sleep time with 3 hours=8. It sucks but we are well compensated do CCT transports all the time so were actually usually getting some sleep time and within reason you are allowed to milk it. If we were to change our pay system which is in the works we would all actually get a smaller hourly rate to compensate the budget with so much overtime so it would all even out in the end anyway. But then we have extra day cars and would have to keep those people at a higher rate. Ahhh politics.
I can't have a beer at the station, therefore I will be paid.
I just got hired and the company does same thing...
SCREW that
Again it's all relative. A place that pays you 24 hours straight, will just adjust their hourly rate 30% lower to offset the extra forced overtime they will always pay out. A place that doesn't pays a much higher hourly rate to keep employees. Now, when you factor in overtime rates on a higher hourly rate, I make PA money.
Again it's all relative. A place that pays you 24 hours straight, will just adjust their hourly rate 30% lower to offset the extra forced overtime they will always pay out. A place that doesn't pays a much higher hourly rate to keep employees. Now, when you factor in overtime rates on a higher hourly rate, I make PA money.