Common use of Standing By Clause in Contracts

Standing By. Subject to any custom now prevailing under which an employee is required regularly to hold himself/herself in readiness for a call back, an employee required to hold himself/herself in readiness to work after ordinary hours shall until released be paid standing-by time at ordinary rates from the time which he/she is so to hold himself/herself in readiness.

Standing By. Subject to any custom now prevailing under which an employee is required regularly to hold himself/herself himself in readiness for a call call-back, an employee required directed by his employer to hold himself/herself himself in readiness to work after outside his ordinary working hours shall until released shall, for the period he is required to hold himself in readiness, be paid standing-by time at ordinary rates rate from the time from which he/she he is so to hold himself/herself himself in readiness.

Standing By. Subject to any custom now prevailing under which an employee is required regularly to hold himself/herself in readiness for a call back, an employee required to hold himself/herself in readiness to work after ordinary hours shall until released be paid standing-by time at ordinary rates from for the time from which he/she is so told to hold himself/herself in readiness.