California overtime law threatens use of grazing goats to prevent wildfires

Re:California overtime law threatens use of grazing goats to... by api_or_ipa on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @11:25AM (#36125965)

There are about 730 hours in a month. $14,000/month works out to ~$19.17 per hour. Of course, being on-call does not equate to being at work. This sounds like a ridiculous clerical error. Most of us here are used to being on-call for pagerduty, and aside from the occasional fire-alarm, none of us are significantly impacted, and certainly not compensated for these events.

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Re:California overtime law threatens use of grazing goats to... by fragmede on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @12:39PM (#36127003)

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Re:California overtime law threatens use of grazing goats to... by dmitrygr on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @03:40PM (#36129564)

> none of us are significantly impacted, and certainly not compensated for these events

Speak for yourself. If my job insists on forcing me to be (1) awake, (2) sober, and (3) within cell reception I most certainly expect to be paid for those hours, since clearly that is not MY time.

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Re:California overtime law threatens use of grazing goats to... by apercu on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @03:59PM (#36129866)

I was on call in the biomed field many many years ago, one week a month. I got a separate line item on my check for that. It wasn't much but I was compensated. Rarely got calls either, because I didn't support operating room equipment and there was a call centre (third-party) that followed a script (honed over time) to root out issues that weren't "emergencies".

Why we as a profession allow for "free labour" by being on call escapes me. No, the salary I got paid wasn't for being on call, it was for doing my normal 9 to 5 functions as a specialist.

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