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Is my employer required by law to pay me to be on 24/7 on call?
Asked on Jun 11th, 2012 on Business Law - Ohio
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i required by my job to be "on call" 24/7 i must be reachable all hours of the day and night. If called i must be at work with in 1 hour or less if so instructed.
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As a general matter, no. The Department of Labor has issued several opinion letters on this issue. See, generally. Wage-Hour Opinion Letter No. 2169 (July 12, 1999) (on-call time not
compensable where employees carried pagers and were required to stay
within the geographic range of the pager); Wage-Hour Opinion Letter No.
2027 (March 11, 1997) (on-call time not compensable where employee
carried pager, even though required response time was only ten minutes);
Wage-Hour Opinion Letter No. 1939 (May 28, 1998) (employees who carried
beepers and were required to respond within twenty minutes not entitled
to compensation for on-call hours).
Answered on Jun 11th, 2012 at 8:25 PM