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#17663 - 17/01/07 04:42 PM
Payment of telephone line rental when on-call
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Graham Barnes
Scholar
Registered: 03/05/02
Posts: 64
Loc: York District Hospital
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How many people get their home telephone line rental paid when they are on-call? This morning all staff who have previously had this paid have received letters telling them this will no longer be paid. The letter claims this has been agreed with the Unions following full consultation. (Our Union rep has not even heard a rumour about this!) It seems and there is no entitlement under AfC terms and conditions. This organisation certainly knows how to loose goodwill.
Graham
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#17666 - 19/01/07 12:20 PM
Re: Payment of telephone line rental when on-call
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JIM GAVIN
Master
Registered: 18/08/00
Posts: 213
Loc: CHESTER, COUNTESS OF CHESTER, ...
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Hi Guys,
Our hospital took a very reasonable response on this some years ago. Based upon European Law issues, the Trust stated that they interpret issues around 'Infringing on your human rights'to include calling you at home.
They therefore took the stance, 'If we pay your telephone rental and vat on it - can we call you at home?
Yes please and so we allow them to infringe on our human rights i.e.,not to have our employer bother our private lives when out of work time.
Be on-call, but how will they call you, they will have to pay for, mobile phone or your home rental, etc. If they page you, they will have to pay for your return call, etc.
Be hard and be harsh, don't go soft.
Jimbo
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Jim Gavin
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#24031 - 14/06/07 08:57 PM
Re: Payment of telephone line rental when on-call
[Re: BSM]
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Geoff Hannis
Hero
Registered: 12/02/04
Posts: 3044
Loc: the path less trodden
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The "duty" mobile phone is the answer here, obviously. Why would the techs prefer the line rental, BSM? 
Edited by Geoff Hannis (14/06/07 08:58 PM)
Edit Reason: Typo!
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#24048 - 15/06/07 03:05 PM
Re: Payment of telephone line rental when on-call
[Re: Geoff Hannis]
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yraG
Newbie
Registered: 27/03/07
Posts: 7
Loc: Margate
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We still get our telephone rental paid although there have been some proposals in the past to do away with it, but so far these have fallen by the way side. We have always objected to mobile phones as there are a number of dead areas locally and on health grounds ( who wants yet another device irradiating your body!)
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#24056 - 16/06/07 08:34 AM
Re: Payment of telephone line rental when on-call
[Re: BSM]
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Geoff Hannis
Hero
Registered: 12/02/04
Posts: 3044
Loc: the path less trodden
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... worth more to them, do you mean?
And I just refuse to believe that any biomed seriously objects to carrying an on-call mobile phone on "health grounds"! What about the myriad of risks to health encountered everyday just by being in the hospital, and working on the kit? What's more important, being available on-call, or some imagined risk? And don't we manage risks these days, anyway?
yraG of Margate's point about communications dead zones is valid, but we are, after all, technical people, and radio pagers (etc.) have been about for a long time. Dare I mention Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and all the rest? Such problems can be overcome (as long as the will to do so is there).
Am I being too harsh if I suggest that the real issue could be that some people don't want to provide an on-call service at all? Perhaps some people don't really want to be biomeds either (and yes, I have met a few).
Bottom line is, if you're taking the money, then you do the job. Yes, "Lead, follow, or get out of the way". Biomed is not your typical (ie, mundane) 9-to-5 job, never was and never will be (I hope). Here endeth the lesson.
Get real guys!
Edited by Geoff Hannis (16/06/07 08:37 AM)
Edit Reason: It needed editing.
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