At Cisco employees have been getting paid well for working "on-call" hours for many decades. Many suppliment thier income with this pay and has always been a great part about working in the support organization. They let us know today that we have to slash the costs by 50%. This will be a reduction in people's pay by about 60-80%, and you are still on call for the same or more hours. I heard that this is to be in place of a layoff, but my guess is that this will be just be putting off a layoff for a little bit longer. Typical corporate cr-p, say that you won't layoff people and then layoff people. I understand that a business existis to make money, but to keep having layoffs when our profits are higher than they have been, it just stinks of greed.
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Most companies dropped this years ago.
they will reduce blue budge tac budget on weekends and use cheap contractors to cover, good news is, those contractors aren't trained to handle certain cases :)
So depending on where you live (this probably doesn't apply in much of the US) a reduction in pay by about 60-80% would qualify as a significant change to the terms of employment and rejecting that change would qualify as constructive dismissal.
I'm not a lawyer. I'm not YOUR lawyer. But if you think you can do better elsewhere and don't feel like taking a 1/4+ paycut.. you should probably look up some local laws and talk to one.
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Not credible without clarification. The amount of on-call pay depends on a few different factors. Share the new amounts for those different situations.
Yes, TAC pay is dropped to $300 now. It used to be $500.
@ab network engineers, sysadmins, etc The people that keep the packets moving.
Su-ks big time.
Honest question - who is getting paid on-call pay? TAC?
Was this sent to managers recently?
Will this mean pay is cut in half for on call, or will they just reduce the number of people working on call?