Stand-By & Call-In Policy          

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Stand-By & Call-In Policy

Overview

Employees who must remain available to report to work on short notice should be compensated for the inconvenience and limitations this places upon them.

Employees who are called in to work should be guaranteed a minimum amount of compensation.

Core Requirements

Employees in stand-by status will be paid three hours straight time for every 24-hour period they are assigned to stand-by status. Employees must be available and ready to report to work to receive stand-by pay.

An employee who is told to report to work will receive a minimum of three hours pay for each instance they are called in, whether they are needed to work the entire three hours or not. However, if the employee is called in for a short period, goes home, then is called back to work again within the original three hour period, they will not receive a second three hours of pay because they are already being paid for that time period.

An employee who is on stand-by status and is called in will receive both stand-by pay and call-in pay.

The total number of hours of call-in pay that can be paid to an employee will not exceed the number of hours that the employee was on stand-by status.

This policy applies to hourly and non-exempt non-bargaining unit employees.

Employee Responsibility

Stand-by

bulletEmployees must be conveniently available to their supervisors by phone or pager.
bulletEmployees must be in a fit condition to report to work.
bulletEmployees must be able to report to work within a reasonable period of time.
bulletEmployees must record their time worked in the usual manner.

Call-In

bulletEmployees report to work in a fit condition.
bulletEmployees must report to work within a reasonable period of time.
bulletEmployees must record their time worked in the usual manner.

Management Responsibility

bulletManagers will be respectful of employees when deciding whether it is necessary to call them in during off-duty hours.
bulletManagers will ensure employees are paid correctly for being on stand-by or being called-in.
bulletGood judgment should be used to avoid repeatedly calling in employees for short periods of time, and obligating the company to numerous three-hour blocks of pay for comparatively little time worked. It would be less expensive, more productive, and less disruptive to the employee, to schedule them for an 8-hour shift, than to call them in to work 3 times during that shift.

Overtime Calculation

All stand-by pay will be paid at straight time.

Call-in pay for hours worked will be either straight time or overtime as applicable, based on ABX’s overtime policy. Call-in pay for time not worked will be at straight time.

Copyright © 2007.  ABX Air, Inc.  All rights reserved.
Revised: December 17, 2012.

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