I'm not willing to resign over this. I'm just not going along with it. I'd rather be constructively dismissed and be eligible severance. I do agree that this i

I'm not willing to resign over this. I'm just not going along with it. I'd rather be constructively dismissed and be eligible severance. I do agree that this is a management failure. Management has known that they were going to attempt an expansive on-call program for well over a year. Since it looks like most engineers are just going to go along with it, it's likely that their judgment was (mostly) correct in assuming they could get away with it. Overall the lack of integrity and character is deeply disappointing, though not entirely surprising. Like many companies, the company has "values" that they tout but regularly fail to realize. There's always some story as to why a given exception is not actually contradictory, but the rationale is never convincing. For reference our company has it's HQ in Canada but offices in the US and Europe. European team members are surely protected by the working time act.