Does your job require you to be available after work hours? Or work beyond your scheduled work day?
As a professional, you may be required by your supervisor to be on standby or called into report to work if your job duties include after hour emergencies. In this round of bargaining (fall 2011), it was a priority of the bargaining team to address these issues since you should be compensated for all work. New language was bargained to provide compensation if you are required to be on standby or called in to report to work.
If you are placed on standby by your supervisor and are a grade level 8-11 APA member, you shall be guaranteed at least (1) one hour pay at straight time or equivalent in compensatory time for every 24-hour period scheduled for standby. Upon reporting to work, APA members shall be paid for the actual time worked at the rate of time and one-half or a minimum of two (2) hours, whichever is greater.
APA members, grade 8-11,  who are required to report for emergency duty at the employer’s request, outside regularly scheduled working hours shall be guaranteed at least (3) hours of pay at the rate of time and one-half.
The reason standby and call in compensation is only provided to grade level 8-11 members is because the University insisted the benefit reflect the current overtime qualification. Those APA members who qualify for overtime are grade level 8-11.
For those who do qualify for overtime, you have a right to overtime if you work in excess of 40 hours in a work week. Compensatory time can be used instead of payment of overtime by mutual agreement. The APA member must agree that the time will be compensated by compensatory time not payment. If the APA member does not agree, the overtime is automatically paid as overtime wages at the rate of one and one-half hours of pay.
There were additional changes for what is counted as time worked for computation of overtime. Leave time such as vacation, sick, personal, jury duty, military leave, compensatory time or bereavement leave will no longer will be counted in a hours worked. Holiday time will still be counted in hours worked to reach the 40 hour a week maximum prior to the payment of overtime.
Members grade level 12 and above are not eligible for overtime pay. However, where unusual staffing and work requirements exist, the unit administrator may approve compensatory time off equal to the number of overtime hours worked.
For more information on overtime provisions visit: https://www.msu.edu/~msuapa/apacontract.pdf
For the new call in and standby provisions visit: http://lay.wyz.mybluehost.me/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/APA-2011-2015-Tentative-Agreement.pdf
If you have further questions, don’t hesitate to ask for assistance by contacting the MSU APA office at (517) 353-4898 or email [email protected].