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> on call, with no talk of compensation bumps

Is this legal where you live?

In my previous team, when we got on-call it was roughly 1 week per month (we were 4 in the team), we got an on-call phone, and we were compensated 600€/week of on call without counting the actual interventions. Just being on-call was paid. Having to intervene was compensated on 15 minutes « slices » based on our salary. So if I worked 5 minutes I was paid 15. If I worked 16 minutes I was paid 30. Also we legally needed 11 consecutive hours of sleep, so if I stopped working at 6PM and had to intervene at 0AM, I wouldn’t come to work the next day before 11AM. Oh, and week-end/holiday interventions were paid double.

All of this made sure we almost never had to intervene, because making sure the prod doesn’t break, ever, was top priority.