I began working as Network Administrator for a small company. Regular business hours, 9-5. Prior to having in-hous IT staff, they used consultants and were kind of used to waiting for answers/support.
Recently they gave me a cell phone and told me I needed to be available for after-hours and weekend calls and service. I view this as an additional responsibility beyond what I was hired for, and beyond what I have been providing for the past year. In my prior experience, on-call hours were compensated. However, I am a salaried employee and not willing to risk my job by being a “squeaky wheel” .
Do additional on-call hours merit additional compensation? If so, how can I bring this up with management in a positive way?
My managers have never mentioned additional compensation for this, but they did publish the cell phone number to the whole company!
Thanks for your advice in advance.
