Common use of On-Call Status Clause in Contracts

On-Call Status. A. Employees may be assigned to on-call status for possible work and will be required to be available after working hours where the employee can be reached by telephone or pager and can respond within 30 minutes. Individuals assigned to “on-call” have the responsibility of obtaining qualified relief in the event they cannot be called back. The relief must have the pre-approval of appropriate supervisor. B. The following procedures shall apply to on-call status: 1. Personnel going on vacation, floating holiday or any other absence from work of their own request during scheduled on-call will be responsible for providing their own qualified relief. 2. Personnel incapacitated for scheduled on-call by sickness or other absence not within their control will not be required to provide their own relief, if notice is given to the department. 3. If an employee is accepting on-call pay and does not respond to a call-back, that employee shall forfeit that day's on-call pay and may be subject to disciplinary action, unless that failure to respond was for reasons beyond the control of that employee as determined by the department director. 4. Employees will be assigned to on-call status, first on a volunteer basis and thereafter assigned by reverse seniority. On-Call Status will not exceed seven (7) days in any thirty day period and will be rotated among qualified personnel, unless otherwise agreed to by the employee and the Department Head. In the event of personnel shortages, the City may assign an employee(s) to on-call status based on reverse seniority among qualified employees. 5. The on-call work week will be determined by the appropriate department head. 6. When any class is scheduled for on-call work the City shall provide pagers at the beginning of the on-call assignment.