Am I entitled to pay if I'm responding to sick calls when not clocked in (on my own phone)

of course you're entitled to be paid for that time...whether or not your officially on the clock so long as you're expending time on behalf of your employer and you are an hourly non exempt employee you are entitled to be paid for that time...I suggest one of two courses of action 1. Inform your employer in writing that henceforth you will be submitting all such time as time worked and expect to be paid for it ( you could go back 3 years if you could reconstruct that time 2. The other course of action would be to contact the Labor commissioner's office and file a complaint...by the way, with respect to the first option i would include a statement of intent to confer with the Labor Commissioner's office in the event you are unable to resolve the issue...understand that every employer has the power to retaliate and it is possible that you may suffer consequences but in my opinion if that occurred it would be unlawful and entitle you to claim wrongful discharge...Stephan Math Esq