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I agree 100% with everything you wrote but: > From the start, this affects my personal life to the extent that it would be unfair NOT to compensate me extra.

I agree 100% with everything you wrote but: > From the start, this affects my personal life to the extent that it would be unfair NOT to compensate me extra. I don't think anyone is arguing that people oncall shouldn't be compensated extra. It's obvious that you should be compensated for being oncall, it would be criminal not to do so in my opinion. The difference is that it's not full time employment compensation, because you're not working your normal work expectations.

bluefirebrand 4y ago
> The difference is that it's not full time employment compensation, because you're not working your normal work expectations. No, you're right that it's not your normal work expectations. It's working Overtime. Because it's availability ON TOP of your normal working expectations.
- Morgawr 4y ago
  You're not working overtime because you are not working your expected 9to5 duties. Overtime would be if you were actually sitting in front of your computer actively working on your project (coding, answering emails, bugs, feature requests, etc). Just being available counts as a remunerable activity but I don't think you'd be able to convince anyone that it counts as actual overtime duties like you would if you were actually overtime. It's "doing something" more than it is "doing nothing" but it's not as involved as actually "doing work" like you normally would. Hence, you are being paid for it, but it's not your full rate.