on call on christmas day

[mollykins]

My dad (a plumber etc for the NHS) is going to be on-call on christmas day, he's done it before but never actually got called out. But his boss is saying that if he does get called out, he'll only be paid the little extra, for it being a saturday! Even though he's been called out on other bank holidays before and gotten extra for that, so has always assumed the same applies for christmas.

BUT his union person is leaving soon, and doesn't really care, should he go up higher in the union?

[boxtops]

Interesting lboro, the other thread about Christmas pay in the NHS is throwing up local variations too, in practices from Trust to Trust.

[ELVIS68]

I was rostered to be working xmas day, I get paid normal pay + 200%,

I always book mine off