I've worked on call at two separate companies.
At the first I worked one week in three and wore a pager between 6pm and 8am. There was a standard amount of £75 (about $100) paid for the week, plus each call was charged at time and one third. I never got called on it. Also if two calls were received within a 45 minute period, you only charged one hour. If the calls were 46 mintues apart, you could charge another hour.
At my current compay I work about one week in six. For this we are paid £2,000 per year plus time and one third for all calls. This will soon be changed to pay per week you are asked to be on call, and the monies are being increased accordingly.
From what you've said your management seem to be treating you fairly shabbily in IT payment terms. Hope this info helps.
Steve
I've worked for a life assurance company in the UK, worked there for 10 years. Assurance companies don't exist to make you feel safe. They don't exist to make you money. They exist to make profits that they can return to shareholders as dividends.
The use of genetic testing will allow them to weed out those they consider to be high risk and refuse or penalise them when they ask for insurance. Today it's one test for one genetic condition, tomorrow it will be as many tests as they can do for as many conditions as they know how to find.
All I'm hoping right now is that some of the assurance companies decide on ethical grounds not to use such tests. Such a company would be likely to offer higher premiums than the others, yet I'd be willing to pay just to reduce the other companies profits. I'd urge everyone who values their personal freedom to do the same.
Since the Labour government got voted in over here they've made a number of bad decisions. This looks to me to be by far the worst.
Or to quote Jello Biafra from the Dead Kennedy's 'Stars and Stripes of Corruption': "You say love it, or leave it. I get beat up if I criticize it. You say you'll fight to the death to save your useless flag. If you want a banana republic that bad, why dont you go move to one?"
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I've worked on call at two separate companies. At the first I worked one week in three and wore a pager between 6pm and 8am. There was a standard amount of £75 (about $100) paid for the week, plus each call was charged at time and one third. I never got called on it. Also if two calls were received within a 45 minute period, you only charged one hour. If the calls were 46 mintues apart, you could charge another hour. At my current compay I work about one week in six. For this we are paid £2,000 per year plus time and one third for all calls. This will soon be changed to pay per week you are asked to be on call, and the monies are being increased accordingly. From what you've said your management seem to be treating you fairly shabbily in IT payment terms. Hope this info helps. Steve
I've worked for a life assurance company in the UK, worked there for 10 years. Assurance companies don't exist to make you feel safe. They don't exist to make you money. They exist to make profits that they can return to shareholders as dividends. The use of genetic testing will allow them to weed out those they consider to be high risk and refuse or penalise them when they ask for insurance. Today it's one test for one genetic condition, tomorrow it will be as many tests as they can do for as many conditions as they know how to find. All I'm hoping right now is that some of the assurance companies decide on ethical grounds not to use such tests. Such a company would be likely to offer higher premiums than the others, yet I'd be willing to pay just to reduce the other companies profits. I'd urge everyone who values their personal freedom to do the same. Since the Labour government got voted in over here they've made a number of bad decisions. This looks to me to be by far the worst.
Or to quote Jello Biafra from the Dead Kennedy's 'Stars and Stripes of Corruption': "You say love it, or leave it. I get beat up if I criticize it. You say you'll fight to the death to save your useless flag. If you want a banana republic that bad, why dont you go move to one?"