Originally Posted by
gloopy
There is no way this can be true. You have zero obligation of any kind on an X day.
This discussion is about what happens during the first minute coming off your last X day. But while you are on it there is no debate about this. Zero obligation while on an X day. Full stop.
You are correct in that you don't have an obligation to check your schedule on an X day but be ready for that call at 0001 if you don't.
Ha! Hardly. I hope I'm wrong about this because that would mean whenever they forget to mark R and annotate a specific 30 hour period, then you'd only have 24, and would still be owed another 30. That's fine with me!
Not entirely true. Say you have 1 golden day in between to groups of 4 days on call. If you are not used on the last on call day prior to the golden day you are automatically released at 1200 so you will have 36 hours in rest. This is NOT true of a regular X day. CS will not necessarily put an R on your schedule but you will have a 36 hour rest period that satisfies the requirement. How do I know this? Personal experience and a call to CS.
But speaking of the company's perspective, why on earth would they not simply hack out a free memo that says "unless you hear otherwise from CS, you will automatically be released at 6PM going into an X day"? Or at least an "if on long call" version of that?
See above.
What possible gain would they get from putting themselves in a position to miss an obvious 30 hour break trying to get 6 more hours of an unusable 12 hour callout going into an X day and then creating a legality issue for rest for the next period?
If it's a regular X day they should call and put you into 30hr rest prior to the X day. If they don't then it's on them.
Denny