Article 31
Standby On-Call Rosters
31.1(a) Nurses and
nurse anesthetists and physician assistants who are required to be
available for immediate recall and who must be prepared to return to duty
within a limited period of time shall be listed on standby on-call assignment
rosters. Recall assignments from such rosters shall be equitably rotated,
insofar as it is possible to do so, among those employees qualified and
normally required to perform the duties. The establishment of such rosters at a
facility shall be subject to the approval of the department or agency involved
and the Director of the Budget.
(b) All employees in positions allocated to or equated with grades 22 and below who are required to be available for immediate recall and who must be prepared to return to duty within a limited period of time shall be listed on standby on-call assignment rosters. Recall assignments from such rosters shall be equitably rotated, insofar as it is possible to do so, among those employees qualified and normally required to perform the duties. The establishment of such rosters at a facility shall be subject to the approval of the department or agency involved and the Director of the Budget.
31.2 The State
shall provide an amount equal to 20 25
percent of the daily rate of compensation payable to employees in the titles in
Section 31.1 of this Article which will be paid to such employees who are
eligible to earn overtime for each eight hours or part thereof that the
employees are actually scheduled to remain and do remain available for recall
pursuant to such roster. In the event the employees are actually recalled to
work, they will receive appropriate overtime or recall compensation as provided
by law. Standby on-call payments pursuant to this Article shall be paid biweekly.
Administration of such payments shall be at the rate of 1/10 of the biweekly
rate of compensation and will include the geographic, location, inconvenience
and shift pay as may be appropriate to the place or hours normally worked.
31.3 Employees who are recalled to work from a standby roster shall not be assigned "make-work" during such recall.