Husband was one of two salaried employees supporting a specialized software system. For 5+ years they have shared on-call duties since they are the only two able to support this system. Other employee retired, husband received promotion to fill his position, and was told they would be looking to backfill husband's position soon.
Because he has accrued too much vacation time and will begin losing it, he took vacation this week. He was paged every day, both weekends, weekdays he was actually on vacation, all of it. He worked anywhere from 2-5 hours each of those days.
What does that time count as? Vacation? Are they really allowed to prevent him from effectively using his time when he's off the clock? This wasn't an issue during the 5 years there were two people to do this job (which is a whole other issue, he's now doing the work they paid two people for, but thankfully he's been able to spend some extra time making the system more stable which means he spends less time putting out fires).
Thanks for your help.
Because he has accrued too much vacation time and will begin losing it, he took vacation this week. He was paged every day, both weekends, weekdays he was actually on vacation, all of it. He worked anywhere from 2-5 hours each of those days.
What does that time count as? Vacation? Are they really allowed to prevent him from effectively using his time when he's off the clock? This wasn't an issue during the 5 years there were two people to do this job (which is a whole other issue, he's now doing the work they paid two people for, but thankfully he's been able to spend some extra time making the system more stable which means he spends less time putting out fires).
Thanks for your help.
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