I assume everyone does! So...why do we put up with on-call at all?🤔
Maybe there’s something to this labor solidarity thing
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It sounded a lot like how on-call could work in software, too.
It takes a combination of quality controls (so interrupts are infrequent) and incentives (so staff who can participate feel compensated, and staff who can’t participate aren’t penalized).
Being exempt means your employer doesn’t have to pay you for afterhours work, which, of course, this obviously is.
We don’t need a law to require it.
But for now, work locally. Lay the groundwork. It CAN happen.