Looks like (following a major incident) we'll be doing the on-call thing at long last. What's the ordinary going rate for on-call standby and overtime these days?
Highly negotiable. Perhaps between 250 and 400 quid a week. With a bonus, TOIL or suchlike if you're actually called.
Alternatively you might look at the UoB's proposal for out-of-hours support, which they've decided they would like - despite nobody being around to need it - which was 50 quid a night, providing nothing happening. If you got called on, you don't get paid anything because the contract says you do that kind of thing occasionally. Way to motivate the management to prioritise "don't have calls out-of-hours" :-)
PS. I will not be taking advantage of the university's generous offer. For folks on 12 grand, it looks far more appealing.
Ways to improve over the UoB's situation: ensure that a regular manager becomes a "duty manager" and you get to wake them up (and optionally come into work) too. It's a fast way to ensure management take ownership of making damn sure that the same problem doesn't cause the same issues night after night.
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Date: 2005-12-06 09:19 pm (UTC)Alternatively you might look at the UoB's proposal for out-of-hours support, which they've decided they would like - despite nobody being around to need it - which was 50 quid a night, providing nothing happening. If you got called on, you don't get paid anything because the contract says you do that kind of thing occasionally. Way to motivate the management to prioritise "don't have calls out-of-hours" :-)
PS. I will not be taking advantage of the university's generous offer. For folks on 12 grand, it looks far more appealing.
Ways to improve over the UoB's situation: ensure that a regular manager becomes a "duty manager" and you get to wake them up (and optionally come into work) too. It's a fast way to ensure management take ownership of making damn sure that the same problem doesn't cause the same issues night after night.