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For nurses on-call is a tiny amount - $3/hr and then you get 1.5x if you actually get called in
by liveoneggs 2y ago
For nurses on-call is a tiny amount - $3/hr and then you get 1.5x if you actually get called in
- darrin 2y agoWhen I was at a small IT consulting shop ~15 years ago, this is roughly how it worked. We'd get paid 24x7 for a week on-call at minimum wage + 1.5x normal wage for any hours we had to log in.
- rwmj 2y agoPay is all about power. Nurses individually have little power (as they are replaceable), which is why unionising is good for them as the union gives them collective power. Software engineers are an interesting case; some have a great deal of domain-specific knowledge, giving them leverage over their employers. Many less so, and so a union could help. AI might change this equation too.
- 9rx 2y ago> Nurses individually have little power (as they are replaceable) Replaceable with what, exactly? The local ER is now having to close in the evening because they can't find sufficient nursing staff to keep it operating.
- bobthepanda 2y agoAt least locally the experience is that hospital admin has gone delulu by thinking they can replace hiring unionized nursing staff with much more expensive travel nurses
- phaer 2y agoHad this very same payment scheme as an SRE on call in Europe almost a decade ago.
- Omniusaspirer 2y agoIn most of the country, California unions have largely negotiated for .5x pay while on call making it quite popular.