Police in a small but growing number of states are trying a new tactic on calls when someone is threatening suicide. They respond, assess and sometimes, depending on the situation, they leave. It ...

Mercy on Call is similar to a service called Nurse on Call, in which registered nurses guided patients through treatment at home or advised them to go to an emergency room. But the new program ...

The On-Call Time may consist of so-called "straight time" – for example, four hours of On-Call Time in addition to 36 scheduled hours of work, for all of which the employer must pay the employee ...

Frequent calls. If you call them in often, they can argue the time between calls is not their own. A brief required response time. If they must call back within an hour, they have a lot of freedom.

Similarly, make sure you're being paid appropriately for your on call and after-hours work. If you start racking up too many on call or overtime hours, odds are someone will sit up and take notice.

Call-in shifts may cause instability for workers, but experts say they allow businesses to staff up when they are busy and staff down when business is slow. Lisa Disselkamp, a private workforce ...

2. My engineering team has an on call rotation (24/7) and they've been instructed from powers beyond me to contact me in the event of any issue, even if its a non critical issue.

Her on-call shifts didn’t always work in her favor financially; often Clay was called in to cover another server’s shift only to not make a lot of tips during a slow lunch shift. Of course ...