#oncallpay

Under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), on-call time is considered compensable work time if the employee is "engaged to wait"—meaning their freedom is so heavily restricted that they cannot use the time for their own purposes.

The employee must remain physically on the employer’s premises or very close by.

The employee must respond to calls within a matter of minutes or face severe penalties.

Geographical, activity, or consumption restrictions prevent them from living their life freely (such as not being able to leave the house, run errands, or drink alcohol).

Any time the employee is actually dispatched or actively responding to a call must always be paid.

Conducting meetings to discuss who is on-call and not compensating them is against the law.

You think you have it bad now?
Just wait until you are expected to be on call and available 24/7 under Musk.
Oh, yeah- he loves H1-bs, too.

I’ve heard some departments are being forced to be on call and not getting paid for those days? Onshore only. I’m pretty sure this is going to get reported to the labor board if they keep this up. They should be careful.

Single parent here. I have to send my kids to live with their grandparents this summer, over 120 miles away because I cannot afford summer camps or day cares.
I'll get see them 2 days a week on weekends, whenever I'm NOT on-call.

I feel relieved. Last night I had a lot of beverages, been years since I could drink as I was the only one on call for over a year. Wife and I laughed a lot.

I have a traeger I’ve never used that I’m breaking in today.

Thank you Dan. I don’t realize how much life I was missing. To the others, try out this crown royal blackberry!

If you are an hourly lead, key holder, or associate you should not be required to text, answer calls, receiving calls, respond to a stores accidental or legitimate alarms when the store is closed, answer calls from alarm company due to false or legitimate alarm, or having to make calls any members of management regarding work related issues when you are not on the clock, including the store manager without proper compensation, this is a flagrant wage and hour violation from Belk. Any of these type of instances must be documented and paid as it is a work related matter.
Belk is now requiring hourly associates to act as salaried managers under the “key holder” and/or “lead” title which is a basic hourly associate position. Please beware and document any cases of where you are not being properly compensated.