[Histonet] On call hours required of staff

[joelle weaver]

Hazel
Yes,  that sounds more reasonable. I have been on call for many years while on the bench- just never that much, or for that many consecutive hours individually. You always have set hours that you have to be available and respond within certain time frames and the days are rotated for on call. I never minded that much, and you can usually trade with someone if you have something important you need to do that takes you out of town.  Of course, I would hope for some compensation for the obliteration of my personal life with that many hours.  Appreciate your thoughts on this. 
If your lab has a policy for this that you can attach or copy to me the highlights in an email this will help me bargain.




Joelle Weaver MAOM, HTL (ASCP) QIHC
 
> From: HornHV <@t> archildrens.org
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> Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2013 15:01:29 -0600
> Subject: RE: [Histonet] On call hours required of staff
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> I would not ask my techs to take call for no pay.    We have to respond to call in 1 hour.  The tech would not be able to make personal plans if they are on call.   
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> We are on call on long weekends.  We take turns taking call and are paid call pay.  If we get called in, it is overtime.   On the rare occasion someone needs to work Saturday, one of us volunteer and are paid call pay and overtime.
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> As a supervisor I am potentially on call all of the time.   If our tissue processor alarms, I am called.  I come in and I get call pay and overtime. (This is a rare occurrence)   If I am unavailable, my senior tech answers calls.  I also answer after hours calls from the lab.  Usually a phone call takes care of it.
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> Hazel Horn
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> Anatomic Pathology
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> No pay has been mentioned. The call hours are to be covered initially by one person .
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> The tasks are potentially take care of anything occurring during those hours including stat specimens. The primary concern of management is that a refrigerator or the room temperature or humidity will go out of range when staff are not on site.  There is a 24 hour monitor for environmental stuff that will call to the person's cell phone, and anything else that occurs when no one is scheduled in the area will result in a cell call. 
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> Joelle Weaver MAOM, HTL (ASCP) QIHC
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> > Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2013 20:34:17 +0000
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> > Will the techs be paid call pay? What is being asked of the techs to do on call?
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> >  Sorry if this re-posted- it got bounced back to me once.
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> > Please advise of the number of hours that your histology staff are scheduled to take on-call in addition to their 40 scheduled hours ( FT staff/hourly) ? 
> > If you have a maximum # of on call hours by your lab or HR policies, that would be most helpful.
> > The proposal is to begin a usual 40 worked hours scheduled in the lab and then ~ 15 hours overnight on call for each weekday,( M-F),  and potentially 8 hours or more each weekend day. I think this proposal is unreasonable, and 75 hours + 16 hours potential on call/week ( 91 hours on call?). 
> > I would appreciate your thoughts , comments? I hope to derail this with something more reasonable
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> > Joelle Weaver MAOM, HTL (ASCP) QIHC
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