Say an hour's salary at overtime per call answered, with each call answered counting as a separate instance.
The additional costs could be tracked to a particular manager/phone number, should the company have questions about the necessity of the calls or the amount of additional cost incurred. Minimizing this additional expense, absent emergencies of course, might provide incentives for management and employers to plan better overall.
I was on call for a good bit of my career, and it would have made a huge difference in my retirement fund if I'd gotten paid for every single one of those beyond-hours calls, especially since the vast majority could have been addressed the following working day. It might even have led to me sleeping through the night occasionally.
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