On Call Rates

[kmaccui]

Hi guys can anyone tell me what you should be getting paid for being on-call please.

Do you get a rate per day for being on-call aswell as a fee for every call out you get?

I believe you get

 

[Andy™]

what does your contract say?

never done callout whilst employed, so i have no idea what the going rate is

 

[M107]

Our duty engineer rates for a seven day period are (before tax):

week days

 

[Sidewinder]

M107,

Do you get paid for any call out hours worked on top of this though?

 

[M107]

Nope

 

[Sidewinder]

So you could end up working say 8 hrs for

 

[Bacon]

So you could end up working say 8 hrs for

 

[Sidewinder]

We'll see...

 

[M107]

Take this week, I have worked a normal 08:30 to 16:30 working day, doing all the above type of work (today it was installing a tannoy system with auto activation of door/light for appliances to leave the station, all activated by (1) a pager call (2) bt call (3) local switch on station).

At 16:30 I am on call as the sole duty engineer for the control room & all the stations across the county & officers if they have any issues with vehicle radio's or blues & two's. The duty time ends next morning at 09:00.

We do a week long period of on call Friday 16:30 through to the following Friday at 16:30.

Yes it could run into 8 hours for

 

[Bacon]

Sidey i didn't realise it was for the fire service, i thought those rates were for his electrical maint job.

 

[sellers]

So If I get this right, you are paid

 

[Andy™]

and people say public sector are well off

yes, but i bet you didnt wait in the traffic at Elex, and parked right next to the entrance!

 

[Sidewinder]

So If I get this right, you are paid

 

[M107]

I'm back only a power on of a ups & log in of some equipment...some fool had pushed a white board back & one of the wheels had pushed the off button on the ups stacked beside the server rack result servers were off.

You got it sellers....and the powers that be are wanting to change our T&C's to include more of a work load when on duty engineer,such as taking out a large genset & connecting it to stations during outages....(think missing laptop of energy security bloke & terry talib = big flap)& more indepth IT based cover (they obviously havent seen me and puters).............. needless to say we are also getting "theres no money in the pot for re-numeration (thats more money to those that dont know).......so any meeting about contract changes might be interesting when they have the 4 of us in...

 

[binky]

sounds a bit underpaid for what you are doing, but that's not unusual these days..

REmind me, how many millions a year are being wasted on the centralised call centres that were built and mothballed

 

[M107]

Binkey it would frighten you mate & it's not just the centres, as part of the great Labour white elephant every brigade was forced into taking on (sorry that should read purchasing at great cost) a new radio network (based on cellular/mobile phone) Airwave..........huge bills for tx'ing & rx'ing messages, and even bigger bills for maintenance contracts they were tied into & massively inflated costs to install the kit.

(I can tell you the above as it is in the public domain already........)

 

[boltonsparky]

Sounds about right, taking money away from the important end of the service, more or better equipment or more firefighters they go and waste it on stuff they don't really need to spend it on.

 

[binky]

the idea is to streamline the service so that they need less people, problem is government departments only seem good at ballsing up these projects, as demonstrated by lots of projects over the years...

 

[M107]

government departments only seem good at ballsing up these projects

West coast line is the latest

 

[kmaccui]

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