Before I had enough seniority for a bid start time, they might call me in anywhere between 3am and 3pm. "Operational needs" is their justification for shit like this. I call it "too incompetent to properly plan staffing levels".

I agree with Hightower that the reason for this is to make it clear to the worker that the employer owns him/her, not to provide better service to the customer.

My husband's union has a call out pay. It he's called in to work on an off day and sent home after he gets there he gets paid for four hours. This is in addition to having a regular full time weekly schedule of 40 hours.

That is so disruptive. It's the reason for unions, to not destroy health and families. These firms need to be boycotted.

But I have always been given on call pay. It can be a money make for the employee if the hospital pays.

Even so it is very tiring as you never sleep well expecting the phone to ring.

The way this is being done in non medical is horrible. In a good economy they would never get folks to work for what their paying.

This is exploitive, intrusive beyond anyone's wildest dream.

It most clearly is paradise for the oligarchs. It's soulless degradation of the very people they MUST have to operate in the first place.

Hope this will backfire on these idiots when they least expect it. As we remember, the public finally found ways of dealing with the hideous abuse of human beings after the industrial revolution, through reforms, and surely something can be done soon after enough people concentrate on this crime against the working class.

It shouldn't be allowed to happen. There must be satisfaction for those who give their life's energy to their employers, who are hell bent on making certain they never have to pay them what they actually should earn. The only way they profit is to actually STEAL from their employees, in the end by shortchanging them of their honest wages and conditions.

Employers as criminals, what a shame.