Our department is being put on call (the dept. has never been on call), with the duty rotating between 4 of us. Each of us will have the duty for a week. This is for a pretty small (for now, we’re worried about feature creep) user group, and we suspect most of the work will be able to be done remotely. However, we will have to be within cell range at a minimum and within “reasonable” response distance. We live in a mountain area that has spotty cell coverage. Originally we were going to be paid $25/on call week, but this has been changed to $107/on call week. That is what our facilities dept. is paid for on call, but less than our Environmental Health dept. is paid ($125/on call week).
All of us were hired with the expectation that our work hours would be M-F 8-5 with very limited overtime(paid as comp usually) and no on call. I still have my original employment offer that specifically states this. We aren’t being given a choice in this matter.
We do understand that if there is emergency work to be done that we will work until the job is done. We have never balked at this because that is pretty standard.