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Australia to allow workers to ignore after-hours calls from bosses (www.reuters.com)

submitted 9 months ago by RandAlThor@lemmy.ca to c/news@beehaw.org

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[–] zhunk@beehaw.org 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Getting paid for on-call hours would be cool. If only.

[–] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 3 points 9 months ago

A few public sector organisations have had a compromise, where you get an hourly rate and a phone to be on-call. It's something daft like two pounds per hour, but it does work out to be an extra £100 or £150 a month before tax with attendance expenses paid if you needed to get onsite.

There was probably a compensation arrangement too but I just took off the time that I worked at my convenience - generally the following day in the morning for a lie-in.