Speaking during Tesla's earnings call on Wednesday, Musk said he needs his teams of manufacturers and engineers to live and sleep at the Texas Gigafactory so any...
Sleeping there isn’t necessarily working though. It’s having the right amount of engineers on site so they can immediately fix things vs waiting until the next day.
So it’s like being on call, except you have to be there.
I feel like that deserves way more than an on call wage, but also not as much as a over time working wage until they work?
As long as I’m paid appropriately though I’d do it for at least a short period.
If your company requires you to be on site for any reason, it’s work. I don’t care if the employee needs to be there just in case and put his thumbs in his bum for 12 hours.
According to the U.S Department of Labor, an employee qualifies for on-call pay if they are required to be in the work premises awaiting substantive work, if and when the work becomes available. Alternatively, an employee is also said to be on-call pay if they are at home waiting for work to come up so that they are engaged. On-call pay also applies to cases where an employee is required not to stray away from their places of work as they wait to be engaged.
Those engineers will be considered on-call unless they are working. It’s up to Tesla to compensate them as per the law, or better, to encourage their participation.
Sleeping there isn’t necessarily working though. It’s having the right amount of engineers on site so they can immediately fix things vs waiting until the next day.
So it’s like being on call, except you have to be there.
I feel like that deserves way more than an on call wage, but also not as much as a over time working wage until they work?
As long as I’m paid appropriately though I’d do it for at least a short period.
If your company requires you to be on site for any reason, it’s work. I don’t care if the employee needs to be there just in case and put his thumbs in his bum for 12 hours.
That’s not true. But you get all the upvotes and I get all the downvotes.
Emphasis below is mine.
Those engineers will be considered on-call unless they are working. It’s up to Tesla to compensate them as per the law, or better, to encourage their participation.